Many men and women in the world do not know why they marry or for what purpose they marry, and how long a period should they live as husband and wife! For them marriage and married life are just a child's play; they marry ignorantly and playfully, without knowing the meaning of either love or divinity of marriage and married life but to quench their thirst of lustful sex.
I have interviewed hundreds of married people, mostly young ones who failed in marriage and have studied carefully the causes of their quarrels, misunderstandings and financial difficulty. And then I went on comparing these successfully married people with those who have failed in marriage, analysing three simple questions which were:
1. - Is there a system or formula that leads to finding success and permanent happiness in married life?
2. - Why only a small percentage find success and permanent happiness in married life?
3. - What is holding the majority from finding success and permanent happiness in married life?
Having done so, I realised that there is a system that leads to success and permanent happiness in married life. I have explained vividly the system in this book [The Philosophy of Successful Marriage] through eight chapters.
When you have fully understood the system and followed it seriously, your heart will sing with joy the mystery of Marriage and Married Life and your song of joy shall be this:
"I shall not, darling, let you mourn,
Nor shall I let you depart from me,
For I in you and you in me, surely, and
Our children in us and we in them,
For we are one; just one, one in flesh,
One in blood, one in life, forever!
For we have promises to keep up our promises,
Not to mourn, not to depart, but to live,
To live together even through storms and thundering,
Lightning, darkness and floods, not for a while, dear,
But for life, till we reach the beautiful shore,
Near the gate to heaven, to live in glory!"
BY TOM VALLIETTE Sr.
Some Pharisees approached Jesus and asked, 'Is it against the law for a man to divorce his wife?' They were testing him. He answered them, 'What did Moses command you?' 'Mose allowed us' they said, 'to draw up a writ of dismissal and so to divorce.' Then Jesus said to them, 'It was because you were so unteachable that he wrote this commandment for you. But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female. This is why a man must leave father and mother, and the two become one body. They are no longer two, therefore, but one body. So then, what God has united, man must not divide. - Mark 10:1-12 - Gen. 2:20-24; Matt. 19:1-9; Luke 16:18 -
Yes, it is a good thing for a man not to touch a woman; but since sex is always a danger, let each man have his own wife and each woman her own husband.......For the married I have something to say and this is not from me but from the Lord: a wife must not leave her husband - or if she does leave him, she must either remain unmarried or else make up with her husband - nor must a husband send his wife away. - 1Cor. 7:1-11 -
Give way to one another in obedience to Christ. Wives should regard their husbands as they regard the Lord since as Christ is head of the Church and saves the whole body, so is a husband the head of his wife; and as the Church submits to Christ, so should wives to their husbands, in everything. Husbands should love their wives just as Christ loved the Church and sacrificed himself for her to make her holy. He made her clean by washing her in water with a form of words, so that when he took her to himself she would be glorious, with no speck or wrinkle or anything like that but holy and faultless. In the same way, husbands must love their wives as they love their own bodies; for a man to love his wife is for him to love himself.
A man never hates his own body but he feeds it and looks after it; and that is the way Christ treats the Church because it is his body - and we are it living parts. For this reason, a man must leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one body. This mystery has many implications; but I am saying it applies to Christ and the Church. To sum up; you too, each one of you, must love his wife as he loves himself; and let every wife respect her husband. - Eph. 5:21-33 -
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!
I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.
HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -
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