Wednesday 29 February 2012

The Wedding Vow

 My last post ended with the idea that our commitment to Jesus is like a wedding vow.  Below is a poem I wrote several years ago about living out your wedding vow.


With the words “I do”
Purity opens up rooms previously locked
Infatuation is unbridled
            Encouraged to explore those rooms.
Intimacy and Innocence discover
            God’s incredible gift 
            “The two become one flesh.”

With time, Familiarity replaces Infatuation.
Conflict and Criticalness threaten to destroy everything;
“To Honour, to Love and to Cherish” will conquer the threats.
Their children, Communication and Forgiveness
 Heal powerfully all wounds
Humour and Playfulness soften the scars
Godly Love matures and binds “the two” even closer.

Health encourages Friendship and Fun
Sickness may strike,
Turning Joy to blackness
Hope seems to have fled
God reminds “A cord of three strands is not
quickly broken”,
Faced together, Sickness strengthens the cords
Hope has simply changed direction
Joy is found in the Important,
            Discarding the trivialness of before.
“In Sickness and in Health” the Godly Love increases.

Riches provide toys for much amusement
         Vacations in the sun
         Memories to Treasure
Poverty provides a catalyst for Faith
         Wants have more power to destroy
         Than the lack of money          
Needs are provided by God
         And Realized in Each Other
“For Richer or Poorer” the Marriage Love deepens.

“Until death do we part,”
Challenges, Memories, Ups and Downs
The bricks of Godly Love come together
         Forming a beautiful Castle of Married Love
Death comes, the Castle seems to collapse.
        
Death comes again.
Preparations are being made for a new Wedding
You are preparing once again to say “I do”
The Wedding of Jesus with His Church
The Bride and Groom will live in a Castle of Love
         The Beauty of which is beyond words.

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