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Marriage

My brother-in-law asked the girl he loves to marry him last night, and I was thinking a little more about what I would say to him or someone getting ready to get married–something that would make a person think, and yet desire to still make the leap of faith and do it. This thought came to my mind early this morning:

Marriage is the most exciting, challenging, and worthwhile adventure that you will ever embark upon.

I’m sure there are other great marriage quotes out there, but I was excited to be a messenger for the Spirit. I only listened and shared a bit of inspiration given to me as a gift.

After 13 years of marriage, I can testify that the quote remains truer than ever! I wouldn’t trade my marriage for the world. Marriage between a man and woman is of God, and it is worth every minute of the trials and especially the joys! If you want your marriage to last, you need to include God in your partnership. He wants your marriage to succeed too.

May you include God in your marriage and find ways to strengthen your own marriage together as you continue moving forward in this wonderful adventure we call life. If you’re not married yet, I hope you find that amazing person who treats you like a queen or a king and create your own personal adventure. You deserve it! After all, you are a child of the greatest King–your Heavenly Father!

My day

Sprinkles of rain
Fluffy clouds
Songbirds
Windows wide open
Gentle breeze
Little ones laughter
Joy-filled faces
Gratitude for blessings
Perfect

Happy Mother’s Day

When God wants a great work done in the world or a great wrong righted, he goes about it in a very unusual way. He doesn’t stir up his earthquakes or send forth his thunderbolts. Instead, he has a helpless baby born, perhaps in a simple home out of some obscure mother. And then God puts the idea into the mother’s heart, and she puts it into the baby’s mind. And then God waits. The greatest forces in the world are not the earthquakes and the thunderbolts. The greatest forces in the world are babies.
– E. T. Sullivan

Marriage

Authentic married love, rare as that may seem today, still holds its ancient power of mutual sacrifice and striving, until “I lift thee, and thou lift me, and both ascend together.”

Hafen, Bruce C., Covenant Hearts, p22

My deepest fear

“[My] deepest fear is not that [I] am inadequate. [My] deepest fear is that [I am] powerful beyond measure. It is [my] light, not [my] darkness that most frightens [me]. [I] ask [myself], Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who [am I] not to be? [I am] a child of God. [My] playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around [me]. [I am] meant to shine, as children do. [I was] born to make manifest the glory of God that is within [me]. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as [I] let [my] own light shine, [I] unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As [I am] liberated from [my] own fear, [my] presence automatically liberates others.”

My adaptation of a quote by Marianne Williamson (see reference below).

So what’s your greatest fear?


Original Quote Reference:
Our Deepest Fear Poem by Marianne Williamson

Williamson, Marianne. A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles”.
Harper Paperbacks, 1996, pp190-191.