Drawing inspiration from the song 31 Flavors by Trevor Hall and his upcoming wedding anniversary, Theology of the Body speaker/teacher Bill Donaghy has a delicious reflection the true meaning and purpose of earthly marriage:
“Tell me how many songs that I must sing before I can see you in your glory, hear your whole entire story, bathe inside your golden, golden sea?” – Trevor Hall
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How many people do we really know, deep down, to the core, and to the point of practically being able to finish their thoughts for them, predict their actions, read their hearts, swim in their golden, golden sea of experiences? Is it one? Two?The only soul I can honestly say I know on that intimate, almost spousal level, is… well, my spouse.
As we approach our 7th wedding anniversary (just three weeks away), I’ve been thinking of her more and more. I mean really thinking of her. This whole marriage thing is pretty earth-shattering you know. What a blindingly brilliant thing it is to be able to say to another human being, “Come in….. look around. The place is yours.” What a crazy thing it is to say to another person, (you with all of your sins and weaknesses, they with theirs) “Let’s become One. I give you sovereignty here. I turn over the key. What’s mine is yours and what’s yours, I ask of you, let it be mine.”
I am convinced that God gave us marriage as an aid or a preparation for Something More, Something Big. Namely, HIS entrance into the human heart, and our hearts entrance into the Communion of Saints in Heaven some day. Marriage is a “school of love” and a fertile field where the fruits reach high, “so high that I can almost see eternity” (that’s Anne Murray by the way, not Trevor Hall). But to plant Heaven’s seed you need to dig up that soil, scour those fields, remove the rocks and old roots of selfishness and greed and ego. Marriage is farming the fields.
Please, read the whole thing, it’s just-so-yummy!!
Speaking of Bill: check out his wife’s cd: Songs from a Mommy’s Heart