Permanent Love

Wedded by Lord Frederick Leighton

Hola, Bloggers! I am back and I feel good to be back after a very busy week on assignment. I need to finish everything that has to be done at work so i can have my most-awaited vacation leave at last!!! Ok, the busy sked had not take the romantic out of me...ha, ha. Mind refreshed having not logged on the net for quite a time, I feel bright and breezy and still am the romantic renaissance woman that i claim to be. So again at this time I want to share with you a bit of my love philosophy...AGAIN! I told you i'm so romantic...lol! For me, love must be eternal and unconditional. Eternal means in simple word, sticking to each other through thick and thin being true to the marriage vows of "till death do us part." Unconditional simply means an all-encompassing love; accepting and understanding each other's faults and mistakes, defects and weaknesses. Let me tell you in a simple illustration. If my lover has bad breath, i won't be turned off because i love him but his bad breath must be cured...lol...so in a not so offending way i will tell him nicely to use dental floss regularly to protect gums and teeth from decay...ha, ha...i'm enjoying this. I would even brush his teeth, mind you. If he has body odor, i will give him axe...lol...oh boy!...i'm just joking...What i mean to say is...when you really love someone, you must accept them as they are and make them not break them.

I once heard a man say: "Love is not love if it alters when it alteration finds." He was commenting on the response of a young wife to her husband who had come home from the war. The soldier, severely wounded, had extensive facial disfigurement and was missing two limbs. Yet she warmly welcomed him back and would not think of leaving him.

Such devotion is hardly in keeping with the attitude that prevails today. a prominent newswriter observed that old-fashioned weddings are back in style, but not old-fashioned lifetime commitment. Most people, he says, are glad for easy divorce laws that makes possible a quick release from their wedding vows when they become a burden. Because of this, I'm gladdened every time I see love and tenderness between a husband and wife - whether young or old.

Isaac was not a dynamic man like his father Abraham. Yet his singular love for Rebekkah stands in sharp contrast to the other patriarchs of his time, who had concubines and many wives. Nothing in the Scriptures suggests that he ever followed that practice. He is portrayed as a kind, loving, faithful husband.

True love endures in spite of difficulties. Paul says it "never fails" (1 Cor. 13:8). It does not depend upon the continuance of pleasing qualities in the loved one. It flows from a deep desire for the welfare of the other and grows sweeter with the passing of the years.

I like old-fashioned weddings. But I'm more excited about old-fashioned marraiges - where love is permanent.

The marriage bond that joins two hearts

No power on earth can break,

If these two hearts will yield to God

And of his love partake.

~~Dennis J. DeHaan

Always Yours,

OPHELIA