Unity Sand Ceremony

A new ceremony connected to weddings. Instead of the older unity candle the use of sand. Mixing the sand together to symbolize the two becoming one flesh. I also thought this had an interesting connection to dust and ashes. I guess I am just too close to ash Wednesday and funerals. But think about it. Here is something I wrote up for the ceremony.

Unity Sand Ceremony
Need: Large empty vase, small jar of white sand for Pastor, 2 vases of 2 complimentary colors of sand one for each bride and groom.

Pastor reads Genesis 2:7, 22-24
"Then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. … And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, 'This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.'"
The Pastor takes a small amount of white sand pours it in the Large Vase for each person of the trinity while saying. "May God the Father who created these two individuals out of the sand of the earth, May God the Son who by His blood redeemed these two individuals, May God the Holy Spirit who has made these two individuals part of God's Holy Temple, Build a Foundation joining these two together in Holy Matrimony."
Then the Bride and Groom pour their sand in the Large Vase at the same time.

The Pastor says, "All people are but sand. _______________ and ______________, today you join your separate lives together. The two separate containers of sand symbolize your separate lives. They represent all that you are as an individual. As these two containers of sand are poured into the third container, the individual containers of sand will no longer exist, but are joined together as one. Just as these grains of sand can never be separated and poured again into the individual containers, so will your marriage be. Christ says, 'So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together let not man separate.'"
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The Pastor says, "You have committed here today to share the rest of our lives with each other. Today, this relationship is symbolized through the pouring of these two individual containers of sand and all that you were and all that you are, and all that you would ever have been. As these two containers of sand are poured into the third container, the individual containers of sand are destroyed, but are joined together as one. Just as these grains of sand can never be separated and poured again into the individual containers, so will your marriage be, united as one for all the days of your lives, because God says, 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife and they shall become one flesh.'"

Then the Pastor Takes the Large Vase (and places it on the Altar) pouring the remaining White Sand on the top of the Large Vase. He says, "May God the Father who has joined these two individuals together, May God the Son who has shown them what true love is, May God the Holy Spirit who seals us for redemption Keep this one flesh joined together in faithfulness and love toward each other and toward you O God until death parts them."

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