“Pleasantness and Praise”
A wedding prayer for a young couple: the groom’s name is Noam which means “pleasantness” and the bride’s name is Tehilla which mean “praise”.
Braid my life to thine I pray …
I seek thy love forever mine.
Our family will be, we vow to Thee,
a home unto His glory divine.
I promise all I am, to thee I give,
stand with me on this, His sacred altar.
Wedded today in our oneness become …
open Thine hand when we falter.
As days become years, many may we merit,
favor our bountiful works, our hands need strengthen.
From the corners of fields, gleanings to harvest,
cherish us in life so our days do lengthen.
Pleasantness and Praise may your life be enriched,
v’shinantam levanecha v’debarta bam … *
every day in your service to Him ...
may Noam love Tehilla and Tehilla … Noam.
Alan D. Busch
*“ … and you shall teach them diligently and speak of them …”
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The First to Be …
Gaze far away into the skies you’ll see,
the vastness of limitless divine reach.
Illumine mine eyes oh twinkling stars this night
May I merit to learn the lessons You teach.
The first of circles You drew without compass or pen,
galactic orbs you cast far beyond sight.
Soaring toward endlessness at heavenly speed,
I pray to fathom the ways of your might.
A house for man from words you did utter,
with neither roof nor from walls a world you conceive.
From darkness each night, the moon but an ember …
Master of The Universe … in Thee, I believe.
Awaken in morning to sounds of the dawn,
our lips with gratitude but of bitterness none.
By His grace a new day to us He hath given,
be as He, the first to be though He had never begun.*
*This last verse is based on an old translation of a verse from the Jewish hymn “Yigdal”.
Alan D. Busch
May 2008
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