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Now keep in mind that I am not married and I am not dating nor have I ever dated someone. So perhaps I am 100% wrong and if I am please tell me. I wanted to share something about love for another (in this case a spouse). It just popped into my head while I was daydreaming, and this is when most of my good ideas come along. Keep in mind it is 1 in the morning! Here it goes!
Love is like a flower. God sows your love like a seed into the ground. Your love lays dormant for some time, like a seed waiting for the conditions to be just right. All of a sudden your love pops up, like a seed breaking its head through the dirt. One moment you were minding your own business and the next moment you are head over heels.
That first phase I will call the "Maturing" phase because that seed is maturing under the ground and you are maturing in anticipation for love.
This next phase I will call the "In Love" Phase.
Here you are, you are now "in love", and that seed is now stretching its sprouts skyward! You are "in love" and this quickly intensifies, time away from your love makes time go slow. Your love is growing and growing and growing, just like that new sprout. Just like the gardener knows the sprout will soon end in a beautiful crescendo, so will you being "in love". That flower reaches it peaks the moment it blooms, just as your "in love" phase reaches its peak at the moment before you are wed.
Weddings are one of the greatest expressions of love, pledging yourself to another person for eternity! How awesome, right?
As you give your "I do's" the "In Love" phase comes to an end. The third phase is the "Wine" phase. I break the phase here because many people who do not succeed at the whole "until death" say (as my cousin says) that is where everything starts to go down hill!
Now the "Wine" phase is right after you give those "I do's" and at this moment the gardener comes along and plucks the poor and beautiful floor right up from its stalk! This is where the marriage will succeed or fail and where the flower will stay beautiful forever or wilt into nothing! The key for both the flower and the marriage are the same. That flower must be put into the Bible. When that gardener puts the flower between two pages in the Bible the flower transforms its beauty. It begins to age, like wine. The flower dries out but is still equally beautiful, the pages of the Bible keep it safe and secure. It may change its appearance over time, but it is always beautiful and it is always securely between the pages of the Bible!
This is the same for a marriage. You must transition from being "in love" to having love. That euphoric feeling of being "in love" cannot last forever, but love sure can! You cement that love in the Word of God. You stick to that Word and it will keep your love beautiful for all time. Your love will surely age, like wine, but it will never wither away when it is securely fastened in the Word of God.
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And that flower between the pages of the Bible? It is a real flower in the pages of my great grandmother's Bible, and though she and her husband are both dead that flower is still beautiful and still living securely in the pages of the Bible!
Love is like a flower. God sows your love like a seed into the ground. Your love lays dormant for some time, like a seed waiting for the conditions to be just right. All of a sudden your love pops up, like a seed breaking its head through the dirt. One moment you were minding your own business and the next moment you are head over heels.
That first phase I will call the "Maturing" phase because that seed is maturing under the ground and you are maturing in anticipation for love.
This next phase I will call the "In Love" Phase.
Here you are, you are now "in love", and that seed is now stretching its sprouts skyward! You are "in love" and this quickly intensifies, time away from your love makes time go slow. Your love is growing and growing and growing, just like that new sprout. Just like the gardener knows the sprout will soon end in a beautiful crescendo, so will you being "in love". That flower reaches it peaks the moment it blooms, just as your "in love" phase reaches its peak at the moment before you are wed.
Weddings are one of the greatest expressions of love, pledging yourself to another person for eternity! How awesome, right?
As you give your "I do's" the "In Love" phase comes to an end. The third phase is the "Wine" phase. I break the phase here because many people who do not succeed at the whole "until death" say (as my cousin says) that is where everything starts to go down hill!
Now the "Wine" phase is right after you give those "I do's" and at this moment the gardener comes along and plucks the poor and beautiful floor right up from its stalk! This is where the marriage will succeed or fail and where the flower will stay beautiful forever or wilt into nothing! The key for both the flower and the marriage are the same. That flower must be put into the Bible. When that gardener puts the flower between two pages in the Bible the flower transforms its beauty. It begins to age, like wine. The flower dries out but is still equally beautiful, the pages of the Bible keep it safe and secure. It may change its appearance over time, but it is always beautiful and it is always securely between the pages of the Bible!
This is the same for a marriage. You must transition from being "in love" to having love. That euphoric feeling of being "in love" cannot last forever, but love sure can! You cement that love in the Word of God. You stick to that Word and it will keep your love beautiful for all time. Your love will surely age, like wine, but it will never wither away when it is securely fastened in the Word of God.
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And that flower between the pages of the Bible? It is a real flower in the pages of my great grandmother's Bible, and though she and her husband are both dead that flower is still beautiful and still living securely in the pages of the Bible!
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