Marriage is a gift, it's a gift from God given to us so that we might experience the joys of unconditional love with a life long partner. God designed marriage to be an intimate relationship and nothing to be pretended at or played with. It's a life long commitment made before God, and blessed by God, witnessed by our families and friends.

It's the most holy of unions that God has granted us here on earth. Listen to the vows God made that are recorded for us in Hosea 2:19. "I will betroth you to Me forever; yes, I will betroth you to Me in righteousness and justice, in loving kindness and mercy; I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness, and you shall know the Lord. "It shall come to pass in that day that I will answer,'' says the Lord; "I will answer the heavens, and they shall answer the earth.

Marriage is a sacred bond and promise of our ever lasting love to our partner, our soul-mate, and help mate. Just as Jesus promised to be with us, we intern promise to be with our spouse. We should look upon marriage as a true blessing from our Father, for as it says in Psalms 18:22. The man who finds a wife, finds a good thing; she is a blessing to him from the Lord and so is it also for a woman who finds a husband.

A sound marriage takes practice, and patience. When anger erupts, we need to step back and look at our actions and ourselves. We need be held accountable to our spouse for our actions. Asking our self what part in this did I have. And after seeing our mistakes, we need to make amends for our behavior.

The Bible tells us not to let the sun go down on an argument. Our parents told us to never leave an argument unfinished. For if we do so, then we’ll only bring that old argument back up again and again. We use old fights as weapons to hurt one another with.

I can remember my parents telling us kids that she was going to lock us in the bedroom until we resolved a fight. Sure enough, 2 or 3 hours later, we’d come out battered and sore but the argument was resolved. He’d always win, but I got some good licks in there too. Sometimes those old ideas really work. To bad we can’t do that with some of our leaders who sit in office. Maybe things in congress would run smoother than they do now who knows.

Marriage is a gift, a treasure. God brought the two of you together to love honor and cherish each other. When I tell this to people they often laugh. Yea you want me to cherish her? Get real! Just look at her pastor, her hair is in curlers, her face has that green stuff on it and you want me to love that?

Our wives and husbands should be as precious as a rare violin. We should be in awe of them, totally amazed that they chose us daily. Look around you, that person didn’t marry anyone else in here, they married YOU! They have given you a gift that is for a life time – their love. They aren’t trading cards, that you look at once a year and trade off, as much as some of us here would like to. I’m only kidding Sandi, you know I would never trade you in on a younger model.

They are our wives and husbands. They are our fortress in disguise. They know our inner thoughts, our darkest fears, and our best moment. They’ve lived through the pain of raising our kids, loosing a job, and struggling to keep the roof over our heads. They are the Gift of Life that God has given us to love and honor and cherish as long as should live here on earth.

Husbands turn to your wife, wife turn away, no I mean turn towards your husbands. Now look at them, and say what’s in your heart to them. Tell they are your soul mate. Tell them you love them more today than you ever have. Let today be a new day, a new start in your marriage a joining of love and harmony together.