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Love is Together

Love in marriage equals together.

This is the best term to describe what marriage is. The fact that I want to share my life with you. I want to be together with you forever. Genesis 2:24 says: "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh."

To live united or connected to my spouse, firstly, is about spending time together. Organising my life so that I can share certain experiences with you. It is shared activities, building memories, making memories together. It must go beyond that; it is not just sharing time to be united. It is also to love you with my soul, it is connecting my inner man with you. It is weaving my life into your life, to be one, united, together. Connecting my soul to yours means to share values. That we share dreams and hopes, highs and lows and that we are becoming one in who we are on the inside. 

I see husband and wife as two circles and they interlink, locked into each other’s lives, but there are two dangers. The first one is, there where we overlap, if it is too little, our lives can drift apart. 

It is also a danger, if we share everything and we do not have space for each other as individuals then we can smother one another. 

The challenge for a quality marital relationship is to define the us. To define what represents our connectedness and what we are building together and what we are protecting together. 

It is both of our responsibility to protect our unity. 

Discussion: Lets identify what we do share together and how we can protect that. 

Prayer: Heavenly Father, we thank you that you joined us together. We pray that our unity will grow and that we are one, as you are one. Help us to see the complement that we can bring to each other. Amen