Today is Our 12th Anniversary...

Happy Anniversary to Us!

Bob & Maude Pych
Celebrating our 12th anniversary
at Calandra's Cucina, Fairfield, NJ.

Here's the poem I read at our wedding ceremony in 2006:

DODI LI

For Robert Pych on Our Wedding Day, October 21, 2006

"I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine."

Song of Songs 6:3

Shirley says

my heart is a thimble

and God's love is the ocean

and He wants to pour all that love

into my little heart

I have learned that the Lord

has made my heart

a little like His own

that the heart is limitless

in its capacity to love

that it may seem

the heart's chambers

are about to burst

…yet there's still room

that bodies grow older

…but not our hearts

I have learned

that God

is the Restorer of Hearts

the Master of mending

broken ones

that although sorrow

may visit us

the heart keeps its rhythm

…hope is not shattered

utterly

I grew tired of the Titanic song

weary of Celine's heart going on

and on and on

but now I understand

the heart does go on

I've also discovered

my heart is undivided

when it professes

Ani le dodi ve dodi li

and speaks of

two bridegrooms

One of my soul…Jesus

and one of my heart…Robert

and I believe

one of the best things there is

about knowing God

is that He is Love

…that we love

because He first

loved us

He just keeps on

filling our thimbles

with inexhaustible oceans

so we'll always

always, always

have Love

to give

Maude Carolan

Note: Ani le dodi ve dodi li means "I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine" in Hebrew.