The Web of Marriage
Marriage Myths:
1. All you need is love.Actually, marriage demands good relational skills and hard work-and at least as much attention as your career.
John W Jacobs, M.D., All You Need Is Love & Other Lies about Marriage, summarized in Psychology Today, April, 2004 and quoted in The Christian Century, Vol. 121, No. 9, May 4, 2004, p. 7
The Web of Marriage
It is made of loyalties and interdependencies, and shared experiences. It is woven of memories of meetings and conflicts; of triumphs and disappointments. It is a web of communication, a common language, and the acceptance of lack of language, too; a knowledge of likes and dislikes, of habits and reactions, both physical and mental. It is a web of instincts and intuitions, and known and unknown exchanges. The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward and working outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.Anne Morrow Lindbergh (Gift from the Sea) in The Language of Marriage (Boulder, CO, Blue Mountain Press, 1999)
Is it any wonder that we ask God to bless every marriage? Being married is at once easy and difficult, straight forward and nuanced with poetry, understandable and completely mysterious.
May God renew the blessing from the day of your marriage:
God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, bless, preserve, and keep you; the Lord mercifully with his favor look upon you, and fill you with all spiritual benediction and grace; that you may faithfully live together in this life, and in the age to come have life everlasting. Amen.
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