Marriage is a commitment of love, but it is also a decision to
commit to all the principles upon which love is founded…respect,
honor, trust, appreciation and faith. The responsibilities that
marriage brings and sharing your life completely with another are
not always easy, and this foundation for love, respect, honor, trust,
appreciation and faith, will be challenged at times.
Strive, however, to uphold these virtues during both the peaks and
valleys you face together and you will realize a true and everlasting
life of love. Nurture this love in times of happiness and hardship.
Happiness in marriage is not something that just happens. A good marriage
must be created. In the Art of Marriage: The little things are the big things.
It is never being too old to hold hands. It is remembering to often say
“I love you.” It is never going to sleep angry. It is never taking the other
for granted; the courtship should not end with honeymoon, it should continue
throughout all the years.
It is having a mutual sense of values and common objectives. It is standing
together facing the world. It is forming a circle of love that gathers in
the whole family. It is doing things for each other, not in the attitude of
duty or sacrifice, but in the spirit of joy. It is speaking words of
appreciation and demonstrating gratitude in thoughtful ways. It is not
expecting the husband to wear a halo or the wife to have a wing of angel.
It is not looking for perfection in each other. It is cultivating flexibility,
patience, understanding and a sense of humor.
It is having the capacity to forgive and forget. It is giving each other an
atmosphere in which each can grow. It is finding room for the things of the spirit.
It is a common search for good and the beautiful. It is establishing a relationship
in which dependence is mutual and obligation reciprocal.
For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of his body,
the church; he gave his life to be her Savior. As the church submits to Christ,
so you wives must submit to your husbands.
And you husbands must love your wives with the same love Christ showed the church.
He gave up his life for her to make her holy and clean, washed by baptism and God's
word. He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or
wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault. In the
same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies.
For a man is actually loving himself when he loves his wife. No one hates his own
body but lovingly cares for it, just as Christ cares for his body, which is the
church. And we are his body
Marriage is not only marrying the right partner, it is being the right partner.
It is a God’s gift to humanity since the creation.
Read It!
Genesis 1:27-30;
Ephesians 5:25-33;
Colossians 3:19;
I Timothy 3:11;
Ephesians: 4:2-3.
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