Marriage, Marriage, Marriage

What an amazing thing! Our Pastor started a new series last night on marriage. I was so amazed at the timing of it. Here we are about to embark on a new phase of our marriage as our daughter prepares to begin her new life separate from us. She and I will be spending our last few months together learning how to live in a beautiful marriage! Wow! Wow! and Wow! I love our Pastor! I love his sense of following God's leading, because we need this teaching at this time!

He began in Genesis and jumped around a bit-introducing God's plan for marriage and why we should study it. My favorite verse we looked at is in Ecclesiastes.

Ecclesiastes 9:9 "Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun."

His point being that marriage is God's love gift to us. God illustrates His grace in marriage and pictures Christ's love for the church through the institution of marriage. Marriage should be a joyful thing; it is our portion, the best life has to offer. No matter how successful we are in any other area, education, business, whatever....marriage is where it matters! Yea.....so glad for my husband, his continual desire to improve our relationship, his teachable spirit, and his unconditional love for me! I love him! I am so excited....we are ending one phase, starting another, and what a way to launch us into our empty nest-a new perspective, a new look, another reminder on the value of marriage!