Marriage

About Marriage:
Be NOT Dismayed-Every Once In A While-Something [will] come along to test the strength, commitment and the very foundation of [every] marriage.

Thus the meaning of the marital vows exchanged:
"For better or worse, in good times and in bad...In sickness and in health"

Inside this year of 2015 we've both been reconditioned as to the very cord of love's strength, the power of faith and prayer, and commitment too where our marriage is concerned.

And as commitment, faith and LOVE would have it, [WE] are still the soldiers of our marriage together. I've never been more proud to call my Husband Curtis. my Husband, than during the times where we hold on tight to each other and fight, pull and push each other through together- over the hurdles, the mountains and the challenges as they come upon us. 

Each relationship is its own unique dwelling. Although one relationship cannot and really should not try to [mimic] the other, what is a common denominator in loving marriages is in fact Intimacy. Intimacy is something that comes natural and it is pretty much a shared language and style all its own with every couple. Have you ever sat at a park and seen the senior couples sitting on a bench together holding hands? We have seen this many times and each time we always comment on how beautiful it is. Imagining the many stories and moments behind the years between these couples. It's the journey traveled side by side, that not only develops the intimacy of each couple, but it's where the strength of their bond is woven tighter too! Marital Intimacy Is Love's Own Personal Language.  -Sowell2Sowell

Living, Loving Life in Marriage:

(c) 2012-2015 Mina-Leann Sowell

My Personal Meditations on Marriage:

I have continued on in my journaling the amazing journey of what has become my own realization [today] about the institution of marriage and or committed relationships, given many of life's winding roads and circumstances. I cannot begin to express with just a few simple words the joy and yet bitter-sweetness of my own awareness that life will surely develop a person from one state of conscious being to another level entirely... over [time] and times tapestry of experiences in ones personal lifetime.

If I knew [then] what I know now today, I seriously doubt I would have taken a few of them thought to be [right] turns that were really [wrong] turns. But you live and you learn right? I have managed to travel back in time so to speak to make what for me was a personal amends to persons of any real significance along my hearts unique journey through life...making friends with the past you could say.

In doing so I found these re-encounters so to speak to be more of a blessing and confirmation, intriguing and fascinating me more-so today than my underdeveloped psyche could have possibly intelligently processed back then.

I often come across reminders that had I not taken a few of them wrong turns in my personal lifetime, I may have somehow missed the busses, trains, boats and planes... leading me to the very wonderful place I am at in my personal life today beside my wonderful Husband.

In my personal maturing I have come to gather a very powerful message about love, committed relationships and marriage:

When you truly [love] someone...'in love'...however one wishes to word it; many things become unthinkable, unstoppable and even unbreakable...no matter the circumstances.

But of course to each relationship his or her own allowances and such right?

Although the journey through thorny forests are an inevitable part of life that we as human beings often wish we could be spared, it is my personal belief and faith that we as individuals can indeed purpose ourselves to making it to the other side. The other side of life and existence where the horizon of a brighter future with that [one] special person we were born to become the other half to in a loving relationship, is indeed possible and just waiting for us to push through the dark forests of life to achieve happiness.

I call it [your soul mate]. Yesssssss I do believe in soulmates  ♥

I am so SO grateful that I made it through my own thorny forests to finally reach the horizon with my own soulmate...My sweet and loving Husband Curtis♥ However, that does not mean that there are not going to be anymore forests to push through...
But it is a whole lot easier to push through these dark forests with a strong and dedicated, committed travel companion... That's my theory anyway  ♥

Embracing The Eternal Perspective

Mina Leann Sowell

It is my belief that in today's fast-paced and chaotically distracting world around us, that marriage is at its knees because of the seemingly insurmountable challenges that can shake the institution of marriage to its core.

I believe in marriage and the God intended level of intimacy between a man and a woman. I have come to understand that it is through prayer, a mutual joining of hearts inside the institution of the union of a man and a woman, that the union can stand its best chance at success and wholeness-"in good times and in bad...for better or worse...in sickness and in health...til death..." 

Genesis 2:24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh."

The longevity of marriage in our world today is sadly being undermined. The fruitfulness of marriage today is losing its appeal. In my own personal experience of being married, I will attempt to contribute my own insight into the dilemma of the crumbling foundations of today's marital accord. Absolute and undisturbed "marital bliss" would surely be the ideal.I mean, who wouldn't give almost anything to harmoniously co-exist with their own version of perfection beneath the umbrella of pure marital bliss? If of course there is such a thing.

I believe that if God had really intended it that way then the majority of the human condition would be a lot worse off then what it already is.  Love, in its example of forgiveness, patience, long-suffering and understanding would become idly lost. How would a couple celebrate that triumphant joy after having so far overcome the challenges that DO unfortunately confront marriages' today?

Without challenge there is no triumph. Without
triumph there is no victory. Something to think about.

 What Isn't A Perfect Marriage: 

A perfect marriage is most definitely not a union of two perfect people.

A perfect marriage is surely not a life shared where everything comes easy.; all peaches and cream. That there would be an unrealistic fantasy.

Because in a all reality LIFE happens. That means that there will be changing Seasons. Ups, downs, twists and turns. Think about it, how else would the power and divinity of God be more glorified if there was not some event or circumstances in the very lives of married couples to actually LOVE one another through TOGETHER? Love is not just that physical passion shared between spouses. Love in marriage is a deeply shared sanctuary that is built around the union of the marriage. A safe shelter from the storms. A place of acceptance and peace. The kind of peace that is comforting and edifying one another when any number of odds may be stacked against you.

What is a perfect marriage? We can only speak for our own. And we've continued to be inspired by other loving marriages, that a perfect marriage is a union so deeply committed in mind, body, and a prayerful and humble spirit to Go The Distance! "In sickness and in health, for better or worse..."

A perfect marriage to us is that inner certainty that Come what may, WE continue to thrive and endure TOGETHER, with each other, FOR each other, standing on the very foundation of PRAYER. Do we have the perfect marriage? To us we do, and we are not alone in this understanding.

Our marriage is perfectly aligned with God's Purpose for us both together and as the individuals we came into this marriage with in our separate beings. Intimacy, intimacy is continuously developed each and every moment we share as a married couple. It's the grand moments as well as the little moments. It's the laughter and the tears, it's the harmony and then the occasional moments sprinkled in of imbalance all combined.

A perfect marriage for us is an all weather treated union that is unshakable; it's unstoppable. It runs deep with tenderness and love that is well rooted in a faith in God and each other. Our marriage is a daily celebration of Togetherness. We could have everything or nothing in this world but in our marriage we say we have EVERYTHING!

-Mina Leann Sowell *Sowell2Sowell 2015