Enjoy your marriage, don’t endure it!

This is what God had in mind, putting ADAM to sleep for EVE to show up. So beautiful a vocation nothing more blissful than an experience of these two souls in love, with a heart that beats for each other, with an obsession and addiction a drug addiction has for the white substance.

It is not to be endured but enjoyed. Not to be pained but gained. Not for the lashes of the stress and sorrow, but for the lush of laughter and luxury.

Marriage is not for the mutilation of destinies and desire, it is rather for the maturation of love and affection.

It is not for the burnt of hearts with anger and dissensions, it is rather for the glow and glints of happiness and joy.

It is a vocation to vocalise ones feelings in a most beautiful way not a vocation to vandalise the peace of ones soul.

A union until death do them apart, not a union of aggression, brutality, battery and hurts competing to outdo themselves.

What a beautiful sight of a blissful union of two souls, savouring and basking in the glow and glory of what marriage is. Old in age but young in love. Aged by number but youthful by emotions. Weakened by their physical looks, but energetic by the fantasy of their love for each other. Dimmed in physical eyes but bright and sparkling in the eyes of their affection.

This kind of union of love uncensored can’t be found in the rowdy space of insatiability. It cannot be seen around inordinate craves for material things neither can one see it not even within an inch in an ambience of kleptomenia.

Nothing of such beautiful expression of brilliant glow and radiance can be found in the noise of avarice and risky behaviour. Only the gentle breeze of contentment, the dazzling light of virtue, the fragrance of morals and the taste of the raw chew of the word of God could paint this beautiful, peaceful image of this couple on the canvass of marital bliss.

How beautiful, peaceful and benign they look. How heavenly and angelic. One can be like them, it is a choice, not only a choice but one that comes with determination to live it out.

Their joy isn’t from sex, though nice and pleasant. Their joy isn’t from status and accomplishment. Theirs if you asked me isn’t the depth of their stashed and never would be used money. Their happiness is built around themselves, in themselves, savouring not the externality of their life accomplishment but the internal joy of contentment, love, virtue and happiness that well up in the

Think about marriage profound, think about this couple, their mien and body chemistry alone very alluring and infectious. Yours can be like theirs, even much more, the choice is yours. Don’t endure your marriage enjoy it. Weave it in the tapestry of love in the canvas of godly marriage. Though the road to this may look slippery and rough, only those that come to each other in nakedness, in love, humility, faithfulness, forgiveness, and contentment can achieve this sight of beauty and companionship even in old age.

Enjoy your marriage, don’t endure it!

Dr. Jarlath Uche Opara Jarlathuche@gmail.com