Love Never Walks Alone

Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. 

--Ephesians 4:2 (NIV)


What's important is not the burden you carry but the way you carry it.
--Lena Horne

In what way are we carrying burdens, or bearing with each other? Are we carrying them with love?  

Love is the fact, emotion, and priority that can become most quickly strained or tested. Love often hurts, because it is so close to our dreams and desires.  

We rejoice with each other, and we hurt for those we love if they are hurting or in trouble. We hurt whenever we sacrifice something dear to us, for a better good. We hurt if we work or give in love, and yet it seems to do no good.

True love is of God. Its strength is measureless and changeless.

The best of being alive is love, that invaluable quality, action, or word that meets each person exactly as needed most. 
Love never walks alone. When we walk in Love, Hope and Faith go with us. 

(c) 2011 Opinari and Jean Purcell

Marriage Can Come Alive Again

Times, maybe years, of misery in marriage... some of us have been there. Some of you are there now. It is hard to explain to others exactly how you feel, or even exactly why, sometimes. Many others are there now, whether or not they show it. The feelings and commitments of the past feel dead for them, too. Or, they've been bitterly disappointed. Their hearts are grieving. Some, on the other hand, think their feelings in marriage have grown cold, or are dead.  Sometimes the unhappiness feels like an unbearable weight pressing them down.  Is that where you are right now, in some misery like that? 


You are not alone. Whatever you do later, first know that God is more important than marriage, for He created and designed it in its first perfection. He never gave up on it, when male and female created by Him went their own way. 

You may not feel that is true, but be assured that right now you are accepted by the Beloved, if you are still here. You are accepted by God just as you are. In your pain, questions, doubts about life, God, or marriage. Or all three. He knows all about it. He knows you. Jesus knew suffering, rejection, and many people with willful hearts. Jesus came and lived among men, as the one divine and human man, without any sin, yet touched by its effects from the world. Seek God now, dear friend. I know, having been acquainted with grief also: God is faithful all the time, and His love never ends. His love is forever, and He is willing to show us the way. Trust Him.  


When marriage is at its lowest and coldest, it's true, (though it does not seem so), that...IF love was ever there at all ..., then it is still there. It may be buried or frozen by feelings, doubts, or disappointments; but love never dies.  - (pen name) Jane Bullard, Not All Roads Lead Home




We have the greatest prenuptial agreement in the world. It's called love. - Gene Perett, comedy writer (Carol Burnett show, Bob Hope, and others), husband, and father