“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
GENESIS 1-2
1But for Adamf no suitable helper was found. 21So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribsg and then closed up the place with flesh. 22Then the Lord God made a woman from the ribh he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
23The man said,
“This is now bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called ‘woman,’
for she was taken out of man.”
24That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
MATTHEW 1
20But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus,f because he will save his people from their sins.”
JOURNAL
Man and Woman are intended to be together, to work with each other and for each other. This is how God has designed it...this collaboration, this union is how we are intended to live. We are not designed to be alone, or to do things independently. We are designed to do them together. In Genesis, woman was created to help man. In Matthew, Joseph (Man) is asked to help Mary (Woman). There is an intended give and take that is good and righteous.
Yet in that there is also in intended independence that makes helping, loving and friendship possible. We are individuals intended to be united in a union that helps each of us yet we still are not to lose our own individuality. This is balance and this is what makes marriage work.
Man and Woman are intended to be together, to work with each other and for each other. This is how God has designed it...this collaboration, this union is how we are intended to live. We are not designed to be alone, or to do things independently. We are designed to do them together. In Genesis, woman was created to help man. In Matthew, Joseph (Man) is asked to help Mary (Woman). There is an intended give and take that is good and righteous.
Yet in that there is also in intended independence that makes helping, loving and friendship possible. We are individuals intended to be united in a union that helps each of us yet we still are not to lose our own individuality. This is balance and this is what makes marriage work.
Yet in that there is also in intended independence that makes helping, loving and friendship possible. We are individuals intended to be united in a union that helps each of us yet we still are not to lose our own individuality. This is balance and this is what makes marriage work.
4“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’a 5and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’b ? 6So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
MATTHEW 19:4-6
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