In lieu of the fact I have just gotten married, I have decided to post a piece about the meaning that this wedding and marriage has for me. It is not only marriage specifically that I feel this way about. It is any type of commitment to a loving relationship, whether you do it in your heart and soul, in private to the other person or in public with a big ceremony, the essence remains the same.
For me a marriage and commitment is essentially about an earthly bonding of heavenly purposes. Marriage is the support system that God puts on earth for each person to remind them on an individual scale of the global purpose that each of us has. Marriage is our reminder that we can reach peace, love and harmony with other people when we believe in it enough, and if it is available to us on the small scale, God wants us to remember that it is available to us on a large scale as well.
Our friends and our parents and family fulfil the same purpose in our lives, but in different areas and often times we have to overcome greater differences with friends, but less frequently.
With marriage also we enter the realm of sex, which is God’s greatest gift to us and then it is no wonder that we all crave it so desperately, but also that it often becomes our biggest problem in life. With the miracle of sex of we enter the realm of becoming one as we were destined to be. We experience the essence of what we believe in and we enter the glory of God through this one act. It is the most perfect act that humans could ever partake in if done in purity and with peace and not because you are chasing or running away.
Your partner in life must also be the greatest motivator of your spiritual growth, even if it means honesty when it is least desired or kindness when it is least expected. Your partner should give you the space required to be yourself, with enough support and motivation to encourage growth at all times.
Marriage, as a mirror to this life, means the balancing of both the physical and the spiritual, which means that one and one still make 2 in body. In spirit though, the purposes intertwine and become the truth of the relationship as well as its growth and meaning.
For some people there are many partners as their growth needs change, others will settle and decide to be content, some will find greatness in passion or peace in stillness, still others will find a partner in their global purpose and never need the support of a human partner. There are still many more variables out there in the world simply because people are all different and unique and all of these are fine too and will serve their purpose to your life as long as they come from your heart as the message from your soul.
In the end the essence of marriage needs to find its way to all of us, that being peace, love and truth so that we can bring it to the world.
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