Day 43 A Marriage with Life

Too many see life as one of the chores they have to get through each day. Many are happy just to get through the day and out the other side and into tomorrow. That cannot be a good way to live. It is like being married to a husband or wife that we live in fear of. Instead of getting closer and closer to them over the years, we feel like we are walking on eggshells around them, trying to stay out of trouble and end the day without falling out or having an argument. Marriage was never intended to be that way and neither too was life. Life is a life partner of us all. We can learn to invest in that relationship and keep it alive or we can drift further and further apart from them. Now we know that life can be passionate and generous and full of colour and magnificence. Therefore, if we drift further and further away from them, then maybe it’s because we are doing something to cause the split. Maybe like many marriages, we have come to take our life partner for granted. We have lost some of that heady excitement we had in the early days of the courtship, when we first entered this world and discovered how beautiful and exotic and exciting life was. So maybe, we need to once more become reunited with this life, our life partner. If we do not, then its like living within a stale marriage, where each tolerate the other. Marriage was never meant to be like that and neither too was our relationship with life. Every marriage has to try and keep the love and meaning and excitement and privilege alive. We need to embrace life to us as we would a marriage partner, letting them know how precious and of worth they are.

We must learn to woo him or her again. We must give them our time and put them first before all things. We must begin again to see them through the eyes of the child who first saw this world and was in awe of it. When something grows cold, we need to try and bring warmth back to it again. Otherwise, our lives will seem like a chore or an endurance race and that was and is never what God created for us. He has made billions of galaxies. He has given us himself if we desire that. He too wants to be our life partner and to woo us back from the desert into his loving arms. He is always faithful as a husband to us his bride. He knows our hearts and desires and encourages and nurtures us to become whole and alive. As we embrace life, we too are embracing the God who created all life. As we embrace God we can’t but help to grow in love too with life. We walk hand in hand with them both. When we do that, life can never ever again be a chore or a thing we have to get through. It becomes a joy, a delight and the greatest of all privileges. If you believe you are here to get through life, try and rediscover the heady love you first found for her as a small child. Do you see life as a chore sometimes? Why is that? How does that make you feel?

How can you bring more excitement, meaning, love, joy and delight to your marriage partner, Life?

How is your relationship with God? What can you do to draw closer in that relationship?