 | | throughout their lives. The most beautiful example of this partnership is the marriage relationship. You have committed here today to share the rest of your lives with each other and that nothing, save death, will ever cause you to part. You entered this relationship as two distinct individuals, but from this day forth your lives will be so totally melded together that you will never be able to separate.
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| | "This covenant relationship is symbolized through the pouring of these two individual bags of saltone representing you, ___________________, and all that you were, all that you are and all that you will ever be, and the other representing you, _________________, and all that you were and all that you are, and all that you will ever be. As these two bags of salt are poured into the third bag, the individual bags of salt will no longer exist, but will be joined together as one. Just as these grains of salt can never separated and poured again into the individual bags, so will your marriage be. Far more important than your individuality is now the reality that you are no longer two, but one, never to be separated one from the other."
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(The bride and groom each empties his/her individual bag of salt into a third bag.)
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| | "___________________ and __________________, we have heard your vows and you've symbolized your union by pledging your lives to each other, exchanging rings and through the Covenant of Salt. So, by the authority of God's word and the state of ______________, as a minister of the Gospel, I now pronounce you husband and wife."
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