{"id":203,"date":"2011-03-21T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=203"},"modified":"2011-03-21T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T15:29:00","slug":"beauty-or-open-topic-marriage-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"Beauty or Open Topic Marriage Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;\" >(<span>pssst<\/span>,  please note:  I recommend you go to my music play list on the right  side panel and select Fernando Ortega&#8217;s song STORM, to listen to while  reading this.)<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-tjRQnWg8VKM\/TYZRqRlFSZI\/AAAAAAAALBM\/Q60bURvqe14\/s1600\/Garnet%2Band%2BRebecca8.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-tjRQnWg8VKM\/TYZRqRlFSZI\/AAAAAAAALBM\/Q60bURvqe14\/s320\/Garnet%2Band%2BRebecca8.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586242174514973074\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The  most beautiful things in life are often something one has to strive for  and seek out with great effort.  Beauty can be simply hard to find.    The fact is, things that are lovely become BEAUTIFUL with hard work  involved.  We will treasure the beauty we find when the path has been  long and difficult&#8230; it is just human nature to appreciate the dawn  more because of the darkness it followed.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>There are  times in my marriage where I feel intense love and desire for my man  that can only be compared to the years of our young romance before  marriage.  The word spark is often used for such feelings but I feel  more like they are an explosion in my heart.  It is a fire that makes my  heart feel too small, an urge that makes it unbearable not to be with  him, a stabbing pain that makes me tear up with joy to touch him.  I  find these times in life BEAUTIFUL!  I treasure them all the more after  many many years of marriage and I feel blessed with them, as one  receiving a very valuable gift, when I reflect on all the hard times we  have had.<\/p>\n<p>There have been deserts in our marriage, I believe we  are not unique in that regard.  When we make it through still holding on  to one another we are often tattered and warn, broken and bruised,  dirty and just plain unlovable in many regards&#8230; and yet&#8230; with a  little time to heal, a little repose from the battles we find time to  build a fire again&#8230; we didn&#8217;t give up, we fought for the oasis&#8230; now  we fan that flame when we have the chance and we enjoy the beauty of a  crazy long lasting love.<\/p>\n<p>When I thought about the suggestion of  &#8216;beauty&#8217; as a topic this week this concept filled me up till I felt  burdened to release it.  Listening to my husband play his piano, a moody  passionate piece I must add, has greatly aided my paper and pen time  today.<\/p>\n<p>I just want to close with the idea that if a marriage is still together it is BEAUTIFUL.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/chrysaliscom.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Marriage%20Monday\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"First Monday of every month at Chrysalis\" src=\"http:\/\/i61.photobucket.com\/albums\/h79\/chrysaliscom\/AdmiringButterfly-1-4-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/center><span>TTFN<\/span><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(pssst, please note: I recommend you go to my music play list on the right side panel and select Fernando Ortega&#8217;s song STORM, to listen to while reading this.) The most beautiful things in life are often something one has to strive for and seek out with great effort. Beauty can be simply hard to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,21,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}