This thing called Love?


This Thing Called Love? Well Ike and Tina Turner said it this way? What's Love got to do with it? Mind you, if I'd have been married to good ole boy Ike I may have been befuddled about it too!! I have never been technically "in love' and can do quite without it thank you very much! I love plenty of people, but not "in love" as in courting or such forth. Tho, sometimes now, I think at this time in my life when, sick, disabled, and even possibly without all the time in the world compared to most folks my age, it seems more possible than ever. But, never being in love, doesn't mean one isn't a romantic, and/or doesn't know how to spot a couple whose going through the motions of marriage, and those who love each other in a Biblical sense of the Word. That's not to say unbelievers can never be in love for there entired married lives cos they can. But, ole Miss Marple of the hearts can tell when love is the real thing for folks or just making do. And not sure how. Little things I guess. One thing that people who are not in that union of oneship don't do or I've never seen them is hold hands as they walk, see, little things! And if you listen to ones unsaved friends you hear wives often moaning and saying stuff like one of them has to go, her or her husband, for little things like not helping around the home. Which even tho you can udnerstand to an extent is way beyond the norm, when the husband is at work all week for very many more hours than your average working man. And this throwaway concept of marriage, just cos it don't all work out like in Cinderella, is a sign of the times. In days of our Grandparents and beyond, if a bad marraige was made, they stuck at it, stayed in it, for better or worse. They got on with what they were given, and made the best of even a terrible situation. (mostly) Other folks often never knew what went on behind closed doors even if the husband was brutish in his treatment of his wife. She respected him as her huband to not kiss and tell even when in a thoroughly miserable marriage. And for the wives to have six or more children was quite the normal thing to do, before the age of contraception and birth control and "The Woman's right to choose" And if she ended up with 18 children, and either a widow or in a thoroughly miserable marriage, she was strong and just got on with what life had dealt her. And even tho a total novice in matters of the heart, well, one can see the difference in a Biblically grounded marriage and those of the world. The wife submits and acquieces still to the authority of her husband. Its her duty to serve him as a wife and be his help-meet. And basically folks get on with whatever comes along in these marriages too. Good or bad. I ain't exactly sure what this crazy little thing love is, as in to feel, but I do know what it looks like to see a real match made in and for Heaven, and those who survive, but only just and only cos at the present time can find no way out of it, and they stay for convience not out of love or duty to there husband. Or they would never so easily have the "its him or me" mentality over such little things as an over-cooked pizza or some other trifle.

Genesis 2:23 The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman, [1] ' for she was taken out of man." 24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

|