In my sermon series on marriage I have held up the biblical idea of keeping our covenant oath/promise to our spouse, of staying married, staying faithful, growing together toward Christ, and never giving up. Here’s a marriage poem by John Piper written to his wife of many years that celebrates such truths. Hope you like it and it steels your resolve to press on in marriage. May the Lord make the ladies of our church such women as described here:
I used to dream about becoming old,
And leaning on your heart so long I’d fold
It into mine, like that old hickory tree
Along the cottage path, that after three,
Or four, or maybe five decades, has pressed
Itself against the fencing wire with rest
Unceasing, till, without a drop of blood,
The pith is pierced, and every barb a bud.
Now, barely shy of half a century,
And long since pierced with fierce fidelity,
I dream about becoming older still,
And how some day beside the Brightwood mill,
Between the watercouse and stream, four sons
And faithful wives, and all their little ones,
Will rise and bless the velvet steel where I,
And they, have leaned, and will until we die.
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