Love Is A Verb

I've been thinking a lot about what makes a lasting marriage.

This day and age marriage is thrown away. Get married today and divorce tomorrow, no big deal. I think sometimes people think new is equated with better. Maybe that is why the divorce rate is so high. If I can just get a new husband things would be better. New things are often used to buy happiness. New things can't make us happy. Why? Because the new soon becomes old.

A marriage bound by beauty only lasts as long as the beauty.

Great love isn't two people finding the perfect match in one another. Great love is two people making the choice to be a match.

Marriage takes work. Sometimes fun work. Sometimes hard work. If you see a good marriage, you can guarantee it didn't just happen. That couple has worked on their marriage. Marriage takes humility.

Love, especially in marriage, takes a strong commitment to give even when we feel like we have nothing left to give. It requires a power that reaches beyond who we are. It requires a power that can only be found in Jesus Christ. It does not hinge on feeling, because feelings come and go. It hinges on the Everlasting One.

By letting Christ be the center of your marriage, your marriage can move from, "Oh...that's nice" to WOW THAT'S GREAT!"

We are who we are because of the circumstances in our lives which mold and shape us. We grow. WE CHANGE! Who would we be without change? Change is the only constant in life. Given the option to choose between my husband as the man I first married or the man to whom I am currently married, I'll choose the Jody of today, hands down.

Humbled and undeserving,
Dalinda