Posts Tagged ‘love’
At the wedding dinner, Prince Daniel gave a speech that did set the bar for all future grooms. Good work, Daniel.
1 Corinthians 13
Love
1If I speak in the tongues[a] of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and … … See MoreSee Moresurrender my body to the flames,[b] but have not love, I gain nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
God bless them ♥
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At the wedding dinner, Prince Daniel gave a speech that did set the bar for all future grooms. Good work, Daniel.
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I wanted to start out, well basically I wanted to tell a little bit of a story, just one out of so many, and I’m going to start it by reading something I gave to Amanda a while ago. It might not make that much sense, but I’m gonna do my best to explain it in two minutes or less, well let’s say 8 minutes or less. So let me read it first. It says, ‘Don’t worry, with optimism, our wave function will create the luckiest universe. Seemingly unlucky moments like these’, now I’m not talking about now, I gave this to her in a completely different situation, ‘Seemingly unlucky moments like these will further entangle our quantum states and prove to be positive editions to our future’s past.’ So as you can probably tell –
This is the man I’m marrying. I’ve married, sorry, this is gonna be a little hard.
– OK, so let’s get into this a little bit, and Graeme sort of alluded [to this] a little bit. He said [he would], ‘leave the explanation of quantum mechanics up to me.’ So I’m not sure that can be done in 8 minutes or less but, first of all, has anyone heard of quantum mechanics, at least? Alright, that’s a good start, a little sparse, but does anyone understand quantum mechanics? Two! Alright, where’s the second one? I knew nick would put up his hand. Where’s the second one? Fred, forgot about Fred. Ok, so you guys are gonna have to help me out a bit, because I don’t understand, and I kind of doubt these guys (i’ll talk to them later), but there’s a couple things I’ve sort of figured out. One, it’s pretty weird, it’s pretty messed up, which is interesting because it happens to be the single most tested and proven theory of pretty much any scientific theory (I mean, it’s just gone through all these [tests]). But okay sorry, I don’t want to get too much into the science here today, I want to …anyway. The other thing about it is just [that] there’s a weird consequence of quantum mechanics when you look at how its effect combines with things like consciousness, the mind, and love, it does some weird things. It can actually have a huge effect on the world and the universe. And I’m not talking about if your conscious mind thinks of something and you actually do it. That’s one very powerful thing, but the other thing is just an immediate direct mind-love effect on the universe. So I’m gonna tell you a story about Amanda and I that will hopefully make this a little [clearer]. I thought I’d tell a story instead of going into the scientific proof. But if you are interested in the proof, there’s lots of books I can recommend, and I will get into that later [in the evening].
So this story starts with an adventure. Amanda and I go on endless adventures, all of our time together is unbelievably adventurous and exciting. So I want to talk about one adventure specifically. And actually I think it was Graeme…someone mentioned it. It had to do with a trip we decided to take to Disneyland. So we decided, well, we’ll drive down to Disneyland, that should be fine. I was in Seattle at the time, but the car was in Edmonton, so I flew from Salt Lake City to Edmonton, because I was visiting Amanda right before, aswell, and she flew to Edmonton, we met there, we grabbed the car and we hopped in. Now I’m sure some of you might have driven to Disneyland, but we decided to take only about eleven days, the actual number (I think it was two weeks that was said), but we had eleven days, that’s it, to drive down to Disneyland, and we had planned about three full days at Disneyland, and even that plan was detailed.
… full transcript: http://blog.whiverwill.com/2010/02/wedding-speech-loves-amplifaction-of.html …
(We’re almost done here. Sorry, I’ve crossed out so many things here to try and cut it down that I don’t know what’s next. Ok, I think the next…)
So let me read this again to you in the [new] context. (Oh, jees, I didn’t even [show you this].) This is actually the very clover, I don’t know if everyone can see it there, it’s in between these two pieces of glass, that’s the very clover I found, proof that I created it. But again it wasn’t me that created it, it was our love together, it was Amanda. Not only that, I couldn’t have done anything that I’ve done in the last six years without Amanda. Even when we’re apart, none of the things I could have done would have been possible without Amanda. So, I’m going to read it again and maybe it will make a little more sense:
‘Don’t worry, with optimism, our wave function will create the luckiest universe, seemingly unlucky moments will further entangle our quantum states and prove to be positive editions to our future’s past. Love, Trevor Prentice.’
Now let me just translate this a little bit. So, in other words, no matter what comes our way, Amanda, our love will keep us together, forever. And I mean that in the most scientific sense: forever, infinite, I love you.
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Assalam alaikum,
Hey… What is this Chinka [Asian in Indian subcontinent lingo] doing up here? For God sake, it’s marriage between a Gujju and Hydro [The groom is from Gujarat and the bride is from Hyderabad].
Well calm down. You will know in a moment.
In the meantime, just treat me as your daisi bhai [Your fellow countryman].
Inna alhamda lillah… [Khutbah Al-Hajjah, the speech opening by the Prophet Muhammad (Peace and Prayers Be Upon Him)]
I’ve been practicing for tonight for quite some time.
Not my speech, but practicing how to eat Indian spicy food!
Because tonight India rules, not just in food, but Naheed [The groom] proved tonight that India is the economics superpower. India is pushing the US economy by giving business to Knott’s berry farm [The event venue]. And India is providing job to China.
And you know who are the happiest for achieving this global status, not Indians, but the Bangladeshis. Yeah the Bangladeshis. Because finally, they get to tell their Paki fellows, “Pai-kka, tough luck.” [You've lost to India again].
So, why I’m saying all these non sense… Because Naheed rejected all these racial slurs by exemplifying the Islamic brotherhood in his life. While at USC, he broght all subcontinent under one roof, not only that, but he invited an outsider like me to be part of this ummah.
He showed all of us that it doesn’t matter what our skin color, language, or tolerance for spicy food is…. but what really matters is the Taqwa, the righteousness.
And for that, I ask Allah to reward him tremendously. Ameen.
Ok, let’s get back to marriage.
So, why suddenly Naheed decided to get married? I mean nothing much changed that can trigger this decision. Except that Nokia is moving him to the bay area. I think that triggered him to… finally… to come out. Yes, to come out from the closet and admit to the world how much he loves Hyderabadis.
His first roommate at USC was Hyderabadi. I think his cellmate is Hyderabadi too… Oh, cellmate means cell phone mate. And now he figured out that he cannot live without a Hyderabadi in his life.
Yaar, the paki bro in the back. Are you with me or still debating whether India rules or not?
Listen, you and i may disagree on that. But we all agree tonight that —sister Juwaria [The bride] — rules from now on. As for our brother naheed. From all of us, “Miya [Mr.], the game is over.”
Thank you.
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The EPIC wedding speech of complete AWESOME and WIN…
Bridesmaid’s Speech (edited for embedding at http://www.johnkairn.com.au ).
Featuring music by John & Tanya Kairn.
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Rusty & Sarah’s Wedding – Maid of Honor’s Toast