A Personal Letter to Young Marriages!
Devoted Young and Innocent Marriages,
Blessed and Sacred, thou Art Truly Most Esteemed by Wisdom!
Concerning your Joy!
Behold, your enchanting grace is like unto a meadow of blooming flowers, your cherished honor more than an ancient oak and your fortune is a mountain flowing with sweet springs and you are a new paradise. Yes, and Amen and be alerted, for so delicate is your innocent love, your pledged honor is threatened continuously while your springs are hunted daily by evil and cunning destruction! Be here alerted to the brutal plunder of what you might think and depend upon as to be forever!
Take heed and bring yourself to know the matters of wisdom concerning your revered crown! Understand the things that can preserve your happiness until the moment your souls are beckoned once again unto the heavenly realms. Young souls, by no means do not flounder or fall short in thinking your marriage is secured forever, "simply" established with fragile but innocent love and delirious infatuations. As the elements everyday in nature so eagerly reveal unto us their awesome powers, which so easily destroy, change, carve, erase, bury and obliterate entire mountains; so too with iron dove vows, rock solid promises and unshakable oaths between two who swear to die for one another!
Silly youth, from the oceans beware, for there is no mercy in nature, nor is there in another heart who sets its gaze or desires upon an ill treated companion. Know one thing poor child, that there exists abundant and more than plenty hunters to every wife or husband on earth, the odds were never in your favor and will never be! Count your fortunate and rare union as one blessed seed from immeasurable harvests of a thousand seasons of struggle!
Think seriously young marriage, sincerely allow advice from the ages to seep deep into your wondrous heart of innocent love, saturating down into the virgin soil of what you accept to be cherished matrimony.
Preserve your oaths by protecting your boundaries like an alert Lioness and be no fool about your mate and the seasons of love, no matter the devotion or declarations. Steel up your marital garden with nothing less than wisdom and possess stern eyes for intruders! Plant all the boundaries with impenetrable thickets and guard your fountains from cunning pollution’s but let all the paths to your love for life be made clear and inviting .
Regardless your thinking, very few hearts could resist the onslaught of severe temptations, and their resistance can be broken down, worn away like the ocean pounding upon the rock! Be not silly and dull minded to the possible plunder and the casting away of your very soul, for armies of hungry hunters search out satisfaction without concern to your love or to your future hopes! The more innocent to such matters you are, stronger are their victory’s against your home and sooner your love and devotions are recruited and converted to their hungry ambitions and you are left devoured!
Be innocent in home and in bed but not in battle for your marriage, for many live and trust in the light of your awareness to all lasting matters and many futures are fixed upon your enduring strengths! For who knows what shall be brought forth from your sacred union?
If by Grace and good fortune you have been granted that divine yearning and your well has been filled with sweet waters, take sure warnings to fortify your home of sanctioned sweetness by encircling it with enduring stones and lasting covers of the best works.
Be always ablaze in your love but be wiser in keeping your love inflamed with more than just low embers and smoke, but like a burning furnace feed your love throughout the years. Never fail in allowing feelings to diminish down cold to nothing. Through the coldest nights and in deepest winters and in every harsh season always fill up your hearts with warm glowing embers. and let not the smoke of gullibility blind your trusting eyes to the powers of the hunters passion, stoke your fire ablaze and keep abundant fuel in stock! Be intelligent to seasons change and do not let winter catch you unprepared! Do not grow weary of fanning the flames or one day ice will fill your laziness with emptiness!
Never think to dishonor your cherished companion and your esteemed blessing with the foolishness of carelessness. Forget not that you are beside one another in both pleasure and in trials. Be thoughtful in turning your heads to unknown forces by any ignorance of your heart or bitter words from unguarded lips. Keep your hearts fixed like a mighty anchor to your eternal souls and endure every storm with patients and assurance. Go beyond simple duty, search out beauty and strengths for the good and best of your well being!
However, there shall be storms and quakes, winds and bitter cold, beware that you remain the pillar to one another’s needs. Remain the fire to each ones desires and seek the wisdom to never be blind to unforgotten wounds. Cruelty in words is deadly acid to feelings and never ending judgments are sores that never heal. Be one another’s doctor in heart, each ones comforter in mind and pillar in storm. Be there and keep your companion of life from the sea and its never ending tides. Drive not one another into dangerous waters with the winds of endless complaints or tear the sails of hope with senseless fury or sharp rage! Remain fixed and in every storm be the hidden power within the marital compass which always beckons your vessel home in peace.
Wives, not for one minute, nor for an hour let him think there is something better, for time and events will wear his feelings down like wind changes rock, and slowly overwhelms his commitments to love gone cold. Churning waves will
convince him as tides move boulder’s that there is something better than your slow withering fruits. Think not for an instant that there is nothing better for him than you, for the sea never ends in selling itself and is never quenched in her enticements!
Husbands, the heights of passion are slippery and lurk like watch towers on every horizon and if your light is dulled, she might be led another way and end up astray! Drive her not away in anger, but be gracious and chase her with your encouraging words and in tenderness secure the lock to your treasure. God forbid that you ever draw a sword of deadly words upon one another’s struggling souls! Wives, practice being peaceful and flutter softly like a dove in his path. Men, delight not in victory over her mistakes, remember her fall is your destruction. For a good marriage is rarer than gold in the purest streams and a happy home is your fortress for the future, build it up a stone at a time.
Wives, if you find that man who devotes himself to a home and family, yes rejoice, but never for an instant let your guard down on the treasure you have been so fortunate in attaining. Be his garden of all seasons, bloom for him and delight him with the fragrance of your love and hold him with the taste of your honey. A wise woman builds her castle around her husband not a prison he seeks to escape.
Wives, hold your treasure with wisdom and understanding. Know that perfumed thieves and painted robbers wait your ignorance in thinking a storm cannot rob you nor the tides from the sea rise up to your very pillow and softest sheets; consuming your secrets and killing your trust!
Like a bee to the sweetest flower, let him find your warmth on the coldest nights and taste your tenderness through the harshest winters. Young husbands, may it be no burden, be her spring in winter, her hope in the dreary seasons and sparkle for her in the nights of doubt. For the strongest minds like mighty oaks have been bent and broken and the highest peaks struck by lightening and crumbled to sand, scattered into nothing, be there for her!
Dearest young wives, know that you can go on without children, no matter how precious they be, but a worthy husband cannot be replaced. Your children are precious because they are your fullness in love, but never lift up your children over their earthly creator and loving caretaker. For a father is first your husband and their mother is first a wife!
Be one in heart with he who has hallowed your love, be eager to please him who toils for your happiness, be not foolish and lax in the father of your children for he is the treasure, they are only the glimmer. Shine for him so he chases you like greed hunts down jewels in a vast desert. Prepare for him his castle and make ready his bed with the love of your youth and be fruitful to his anticipations. Give to your giver and take strength in his pleasures while the time for love remains fresh. Into his every thought, imbed your sweetest memories like refreshing rain upon the desolate sands. let him savor and cherish the moments with you in the nest before the dawn.
Young marriages, Permeate one another’s senses with ever loving thoughts, so not to lose the scent and rejoice in finding your mate in storm or in deepest night. Imprint your call of kindness like a sacred map onto one another’s daily journey and let love beckon your souls straight way unto your welcoming home.
Wives, implant your tender smile over the weights of life and trials of his paths and turn him home when danger seeks his ways. Let not the claws of despised Eagles clutch him from your weakened grasp but secure him into the knowledge of your welcome and anxious works. Do not grow careless in these things, not now nor tomorrow or even when you might wither and fade. Guard your happiness continuously with wisdom in mind, keeping your heart from destruction and honoring your body with care. Be the woman you are, but never be slothful in the wife your husband desires and allow your first love to fade away from what he treasures. Keep your living fountain vital and home waters sweet, for sweeter springs are bubbling there beyond your doors.
Young marriage, be cunning like a dove and wiser than a serpent for the sake of a long life of joy and for the glory of a peaceful home! Blessed marriage, wear your fabulous crown of sacred union in glory, keep it wondrous and out of the hands of those who failed to heed warnings and fell into the canyons of broken promises. Guard what is rightfully yours with every tool, stand up in full alert without fear for the sake of all promised rewards. Abandon not your duty in silence to warnings but turn thy ear quickly to invaders and seal up your household with powerful prayers!
The key to the lock of sacred joys and blissful memories: Remember the solid setting of FORGIVENESS which all your most precious jewels are secured into! Be quick to forgive and run quickly upon the path of peace with hot tears and repair at all costs the breach of your blessing! Lock fast your doors and windows to the clawed talons of disguised friends or parents who advise you in ill acquired error against your companion, your mate and your dearest friend of life.
Beware of those seeking companions which have already devoured and ground to pieces their hopes and life! Take heed and let no thoughts from wayward birds bring dismay into your home. Do not build your love upon riches but with patients and faith establish an everlasting fortress surrounded with fruitful vineyards and lush orchards which were grown only by faith, patients and with loving care!
Now wise and excellent ladies, blessed companions and faithful wives, be not frustrated in matters too high for your concerns, but give yourselves over to the beauty of a happy and peaceful home founded on a blessed marriage. Now go forward and fill up your life abundantly with joyful years by which God has so kindly established for you and your eternal companion !
Oh good men of faith, be wiser than your treasured wife and remain loving and compassionate to her in your youth and in long coming seasons. Turn your ears away from the howling winds and roaring oceans, do not be worn down with strong tides of change. Be not unworthy to the lasting love who waits in your fortress. Run after her like a fawn in chase and like a galloping steed unto sweet waters. Cherish and hold sacred your youthful bride of love and of peace. Honor her love in all seasons, kiss her tears and wash her eyes with the milk and honey of promised love. Search out her treasures and keep them hidden from the enemies of sacred vows. Plant not bitter grapes with your own hand and take care they not be planted in a loving wife. Honor her works in your behalf and count your blessings everyday when you are so fortunate to return unto the kinder and better half of your soul!
Defend the joy of your soul with the keeping of love and the honoring of all privileges granted to a blessed marriage! Remember young marriages, that blessing for you began with the love of God through others and thus attained for you by your loving parents who sought Gods mercy for your lives with hot tears and much struggle! Now, increase your blessing for the keeping of wisdom and plant the gardens of the future with the seeds of love and cultivate all your blessings with caution and with wisdom! Stand guard for one another’s souls and in this you will receive a blessed reward greater and more joyful than what you might know now!
From: Michael M. Michaelson