THE traditional marriage vows recited
by most couples include the phrase,
“in sickness and in health,”
“for richer or poorer,” and “for better or worse.”
There’s a reason!
Even the best relationships
include times that qualify as sick, poor, and worse.
A young woman once phoned
her mother and cried,
“Mother, I had no idea marriage
meant washing and ironing so many shirts!”
her mother wisely counseled,
“Think of each shirt you
iron as an act of love.”
The young woman took her mother’s advice
and just below the neckline on each
collar she ironed, she planted a big kiss,
complete with a tint of lipstick.
A marriage may involve washing
and drying millions of dishes
and making millions of beds
and paying thousands of bills
and scrubbing the floor thousands of times.
It will mean emptying trash mowing
the lawn thousand of times,
and raking perhaps billions leaves.
But if you make each mundane chore
related to your marriage an act of love,
you’ll find your feelings for your spouse growing sweeter, not bitter.
Love in a marriage
means doing many things you don’t like.
But it brings rewards you can reap
in no other relationship!
by most couples include the phrase,
“in sickness and in health,”
“for richer or poorer,” and “for better or worse.”
There’s a reason!
Even the best relationships
include times that qualify as sick, poor, and worse.
A young woman once phoned
her mother and cried,
“Mother, I had no idea marriage
meant washing and ironing so many shirts!”
her mother wisely counseled,
“Think of each shirt you
iron as an act of love.”
The young woman took her mother’s advice
and just below the neckline on each
collar she ironed, she planted a big kiss,
complete with a tint of lipstick.
A marriage may involve washing
and drying millions of dishes
and making millions of beds
and paying thousands of bills
and scrubbing the floor thousands of times.
It will mean emptying trash mowing
the lawn thousand of times,
and raking perhaps billions leaves.
But if you make each mundane chore
related to your marriage an act of love,
you’ll find your feelings for your spouse growing sweeter, not bitter.
Love in a marriage
means doing many things you don’t like.
But it brings rewards you can reap
in no other relationship!
