Just some thoughts on eternal marriage, I by no means am an
expert on what is like to married or what not, but I do feel that my upbringing
and what the gospel of Jesus Christ teaches, I am an expert on what an eternal
celestial marriage SHOULD be.
Today I went for a wonderful run with a really amazing
friend named Brooke, a friend from my local young single adult ward. We went on
a three mile run through Provo, and it was amazing I had a blast. This was
tough for me because ½ of the run is uphill and I have not been running uphill
for about…. Ever ok? I’ll be honest and keeping it real. I don’t run uphill. So
we were going uphill and the other friend with us had to stop so we did,
eventually we got to a halfway point and he had to turn around and head home he
was so tired and not ready for such a long run, so Brooke and I started going
again, she had the most pleasant attitude the whole way, truly an angel, Christ
like to a T. and then came the point where I had to slow down so she did too.
Then we started running the race again then again I had a cramp and had to
walk… and she slowed too… we walked and talked … then I felt better and said let’s
run… I plugged in my earphones and a wonderful empowering song came on ,and I
had to sprint and smile, just sublime… grinning from ear to ear… and sprinting
( I make it a point to smile while I run because people have this awful scowl
each time I see them running). THEN I
noticed I was too far ahead of her, and I slowed down to wait for her... and
then our finish line was in sigh about a quarter mile left, and I turned to her
and said I’m tired but NO Quit., not a complete English sentence, but… NO QUIT…
and I didn’t we got to the last cross walk and my body couldn’t do it… so we
walked and waited for the cross walk to turn to
the little man made of white lights to appear, then I turned to her and
said, lets run the rest of the way home.
To me this is a parable of how a marriage should be, we are
on a run, a run back home to our heavenly father, and most of the time when we
run it’s a circle from home and right back to it. On this run we have a running
mate, in the case of our marriages it’s our wives or husbands. Just like a run marriages have stages, the
first 5 min or so of a run are amazing and easy, you’re just full of energy,
but then hills come and you get tired but you push through them together, it
will be rough and hard but you do it. Then you become tired and a spouse gets a
little weary along the way, then we stop and let them catch their breath and then
we continue onward. Sometimes you have to completely stop and take the time to
listen to one another and their needs focusing 100% on them. THEN run again...
then comes the downhill portion where you are in sync and have it pretty
figured out, and then you’re coming to the close of your journey, and like my
run , a powerful song appears in your life,( I like to think of this as the
gospel of Christ ) and it carry’s you forward at a faster pace, and also like
my run you each take turns waiting and helping each other, it’s also filled with whimsy if you enjoy it,
Brooke was a wonderful example of this,everytime there was a sprinkler near the
sidewalk she would run right through it, this always made me smile.
then… at the very end
when your destination is in sight, you run to it, and make sure even if on your
last stretch you need to rest, run home even if it is 10 feet run it.
As mentioned before I may not know what it is like to be
married but, Christ has taught us how we should be. Listen to his words, live
them, pray about them and seek his guidance he will send the Holy Spirit to
manifest his will for us. Because he wants us to make it home fast or slow, he
wants us home as a family.
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