Is your heart an ocean so strong and deep,
I may launch my all on its tide?
A loving woman finds heaven or hell
On the day she is made a bride.
From A Woman's Question by Lena Lathrop
The most important decision a person will make is who they choose to marry. This poem is written from the woman's perspective but change a few nouns and pronouns to the masculine in the last two lines and it holds just as true.
One way to find marriage like heaven is through three words - the three most important words in a marriage. What are they?
I forgive you.
And why do we forgive?
Because. Because we are all sinners in need of grace. We have all sinned and will sin again, and again, and again, and again, and Christ has won for us forgiveness, freely given. He has declared us righteous and we are. That is joy-bringing knowledge. Knowing what joy it brings us to be forgiven, doesn't it make sense that we would extend forgiveness to the person with whom we have been made one?
I may launch my all on its tide?
A loving woman finds heaven or hell
On the day she is made a bride.
From A Woman's Question by Lena Lathrop
The most important decision a person will make is who they choose to marry. This poem is written from the woman's perspective but change a few nouns and pronouns to the masculine in the last two lines and it holds just as true.
One way to find marriage like heaven is through three words - the three most important words in a marriage. What are they?
I forgive you.
And why do we forgive?
Because. Because we are all sinners in need of grace. We have all sinned and will sin again, and again, and again, and again, and Christ has won for us forgiveness, freely given. He has declared us righteous and we are. That is joy-bringing knowledge. Knowing what joy it brings us to be forgiven, doesn't it make sense that we would extend forgiveness to the person with whom we have been made one?
No comments:
Post a Comment