Wedding
wedding is the act of marrying. It is the celebration of a marriage. They are essentially related but different processes sometimes used interchangeably.
A marriage is defined as the legal union of a man and woman as husband and wife. It was expanded to include a union between two persons of the same sex. A marriage is solemnized with a license before the act and a certificate after the act is performed.
A ceremony records a wedding. The inhabitants of the village or town are invited and participate as witnesses. This is proof that the union took place. The event is remembered and recorded in the town hall records.
Families use religious books or documents to record marriages, and children born to the union. A fine line develops between acceptable marriages and tolerated ones.
Upper class people document unions in places that have legal weight and standing in power. Lower class people; indentured servants, the enslaved or persons who were not considered whole, individual humans or humans at all created their own ceremonies. Enslaved Africans created the “Jumping the Broom” act symbolizing the couple leaving behind their lives as single persons and entering a life joined together as a unit.
During our wedding ceremony in Barbados, WI.
Wedding vow, noun, The oath taken during a wedding ceremony concluding with "I do."
The marriage vow varies according to religion. The common thread is that a religious energy sanctioned the union. Since the 16th century in Europe and probably further back in China and Africa, a representative of a religious or spiritual order recited text. Such ceremonies were documented around the 16th century in Europe for procreation or, most likely, to unify power.
The marriage vow ended with ”…until death do us part” or ”…for as long
as you both shall live.” Marriage vows were and still are connected to mortality.
A ceremony publicly records a wedding. The inhabitants of the village or town are invited and participate as witnesses. This is proof that the union took place. The event is remembered and recorded in the town hall records. Families use religious books or documents to record marriages, and children born to the union.
A fine line develops between acceptable marriages and tolerated ones.
Upper class people document unions in places that have legal weight and standing in power. Lower class people; indentured servants, the enslaved, and other persons who seemingly have no power use memory to record unions. Depending on the century, such marriages may not have any value as in the world of power did not turn on activities of the poor.
Species by Allison L. Williams Hill
Our wedding ceremony was presided over by an Anglican priest in Barbados.
He spoke words over us. I felt more than heard them. In our ceremony, we did not speak words to each other, however, we did when we returned to Tortola when he placed the ring I chose on my finger.
Merge with River II by Allison L. Williams Hill
We lived together and then married. My husband passed. Our relationship spanned over twenty-two years in the physical realm. Traditionally speaking, people move onto the next relationship after grieving. I have not. When we constructed this life, his passing and my continuance as human was a part of the plan. I continue my marriage with my husband who transitioned. The difference between us now is a common physical presence: a body. My wedding vow eliminates mortality.
My marriage vow eliminates mortality.
I married a man who took marriage as seriously as I did. He knows that I am aware of him. He speaks to me so that I may expand my ability to communicate with him. I resolved that I am past thinking of embarrassment when people speaking to myself in public. I would be speaking to him. Before cell phones, I marveled at a homeless man’s genius attaching a transistor radio to one side of his head with rubber bands. My husband’s answer came through my sister-friend, “Ear phones.” Maybe people with ear phones are speaking to the air; you cannot tell who is off the beam as easily as I will look as if I joined their ranks.
My teacher and friend, Patricia Hayes, wrote a book called The Definitive Book on the Afterlife. Her husband, a man I loved for the great teacher that he was and continues to be, Marshall Smith, transitioned from an accident. They wrote the book together to assist others to connect with their loved ones. Marshall passed in 2018. I had a meditation-vision of him and Mauricio Panniset visiting me to encourage me to resume my studies at Delphi. Six years before, Mauricio appeared alone with the same message.
I am more in love with my husband. Yet his remains are in a box adjacent to my bed that I have not opened since I received it in 2015, the year he transitioned.
“Until death do you part,” spoken at nearly the end of a wedding ceremony, personally says, "If I should survive this marriage then I am permitted to marry another." Another ceremony would be created and executed before others I may or may not know as was my first wedding, and we can continue living together and experience life together.
Something is amiss. We are mortal. It is expected that we will die. It is a gamble as to who in a couple will pass first. The love that grows between people may stir feelings of not wanting to live should our beloved leave. Desires of passing on first fill the mind and heart.
Clem in Guyana by Allison L. Williams Hill
Clem broke my heart when he died. As I write this, I feel tears though not as much or as many as I did when he died. It is not about getting used to. It is about accepting and finding, for me, new and different ways of still including him in my life.
I abide, in other words, I continue to accept that we are married. I love thinking that Clem is my divine compliment. While in different dimensions, he is in the place of origin, where we all come from, and I am here, incarnate. We touch but it is different. My education about spirituality trained me to become aware of energy, of different types of energy while in the physical form. It began over half my life ago at a point where I received prompts to get serious (and I got this message from Raphael later that exposed me to the night energy work that brought Clem into my life) about my spiritual work.
The first step was entering The Tree of Life in Harlem. I didn’t ask for help and I left. Things were still moving. I attended a Silva Mind Control presentation. The presenter and lecturer, LaVerne Reed said she would not call anyone. Each person should determine if they are to attend. But…she called me. In this moment and every moment before when I remember this, I thank I send the gratitude into the ether and know it somehow reaches her. Years later, my professor and friend, Barbara Carr, introduced me to her friend J. who introduced me to Raphael, who at that time used his given name Clyde Nocerino.
Stars by Allison L. Williams Hill
Raphael and I had simultaneous lives in different capacities. We were related and, in another time, he was attempting to court my daughter. The thought that kept repeating was, “But, will he make a good husband?” It was a very interesting story in a very interesting time.
A personal session with Raphael gave me instructions to meet my spiritual match. Days and months passed. I met Clem and entered this life of amazing events. I found my husband, my divine compliment, a spiritual being that I may have known for eons.
My time with Raphael brought clarity to what my life’s purpose is. I was extremely fortunate that Clem and I met and kept our appointment. In abiding, continuing a marriage with a spiritual being, I AM to become the complete alignment of Divinity in a human body. I can end it, however, I will need to return to complete what I chose to learn: in a human body, in physical form, be Spirit.
Be what I AM.
Be that of What I AM.
Be the Divine Essence.
Walm the Earth as God.
Walk the Earth as Goddess.
Walk the Earth as Spirit.
Become the Lightworker I was born to be,
I AM defined by the Light.
I AM the Lightworker and the Way.
I AM to surrender to the Divine. I rise up and unite with God.
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