Unity...attempting unity

This blog is devoted to marriage, seeing as that I have recently tied the knot with my new and beautiful bride I would like to share some reflections. Being united is a blessed pleasantry where two people commit to being united together for the rest of their lives. Marriage is a symbolic contextual parable of a biblical covenant, at least in our minds, which is an embrace of true faith, it is the unreserved thrust of not one but two into the arms of God embracing not only our own sufferings together, but the sufferings of God in the world taking seriously the call to live in this world proclaiming the glory and beauty of the next world. As two people become one, as two individuals become one in the essential things they commit to being made into one another through the power of Christ, which is the power of love. This process does not begin nor end at the civil ceremony of marriage, rather it is the public commitment to the call of unity, to the dreams of God that we would be one in the essential things. By dreams of God I simply mean those institutions and actions that God wishes for Her children to have, it is an extension of the church of Christ, a functional unity, or a continual action whereby we either choose to move closer to one another or to remain veiled as the individual. Marriage is an attempt to break through the veils of our cultures and societies attempts at what is one's own, and flies in the face of the survival of the fittest, for one must truly give up one's own ambitions so that each partner can support one another and imagine new dreams that proclaim not simply ones love for another, but a better world than has ever been seen, a world where selfish ambition cannot stand, but only the power of love, from one person to another, the power of Christ among us to proclaim a new order, a new way of being human to quote a popular phrase. In this proclamation and celebration of a world that no eye has seen we enact a parable of special magnificence, an action that others cannot help but notice, and we unleash love in unparalleled ways. LOVE FROM LONDON