Agape Love

“Love is a wonderful thing-makes you smile through the pouring rain. Love is a wonderful thing-I’ll say it again & again!” This song from Michael Bolton just popped into my head and got my mind reeling.  With caretaking my parents this last year as my father died from cancer, I soaked up as many stories and memories and conversations as I could.  During this process, I couldn’t help but analyze what I do and don’t want to repeat in my own life.

One thing I deeply contemplated was the choice to stay in a marriage that these days would have been grounds for divorce 20 times over.  And yet they remained together for months shy of 50 years.  They discussed how beautiful it was to share in watching all they had created together and how if they weren’t still together, they wouldn’t be able to enjoy the family as much or as deeply because they would have been torn apart.

Marriage is indeed a struggle for the majority of us.  We all have different struggles and different depths of struggles at different times in our marriage, but God will see you through if you allow him to work in you both.  If your marriage is struggling today and you want to make it work, but it’s hard...make the commitment to keep on keeping on because it will reward you both in the long run.

...Serve me bravely and fight the battles of the Lord...
1 Samuel 18:17