{"id":334,"date":"2010-10-04T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=334"},"modified":"2010-10-04T19:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T19:22:00","slug":"sacred-commitment-marriage-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=334","title":{"rendered":"Sacred Commitment (Marriage Monday)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Making a sacred commitment, the marriage commitment,  is fun and freeing.<a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TKkQjZyJzzI\/AAAAAAAAJX0\/ZdXHdM1UAlg\/s1600\/Garnet+and+Rebecca10.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TKkQjZyJzzI\/AAAAAAAAJX0\/ZdXHdM1UAlg\/s320\/Garnet+and+Rebecca10.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523964618349334322\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Now  don&#8217;t get me wrong, it is also very sacred in our eyes, so sacred that  we have done it twice, meaning we have renewed our vows.  <a href=\"http:\/\/avoidingthesandyland.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/our-vow-renewal.html\">My husband teases that he now has two sacred vows with the same woman and that is pretty scary.<\/a> Click on the previous highlighted text to link to the post on our second ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>It  is pretty easy to remember how deep and complicated and important such a  commitment is, especially when you where raised as my husband and I  where.  We saw it all the more soberly when we where younger and the  marriage was new.  We had a deep understanding going into it that this  was a big deal, in the eyes of God we would forever be one.  As we age  together we rely more on the joy of the Lord to get us through together,  rather then a somber determined mind.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>So little is  said about the not so serious side of commitment.  The beauty involved  in the fun.  It is fun to live with my best friend and to know I got him  FOREVER.  It is freeing to not have the weight of dating and complex  relationships on us anymore.   We plan to have a big party every ten  years to force us to remember how wonderfully fun it is to be committed  to one another.  Next party we hope to rent a ball room, chamber  orchestra and have an old fashioned ball.  Dancing lessons are much  needed for my man and I first but, after all, we have almost ten years  to plan for it.<\/p>\n<p>It is so much easier to accepting the sacred  commitment when you embrace the fun and freedom in it.  The freedom is a  gift to married couples.   So don&#8217;t act like you think a married couple  is supposed to act and instead have fun together, be friends, push one  another to enjoy new experiences, spur one another on to stay young at  heart and laugh together more.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TKkQjA5onXI\/AAAAAAAAJXs\/NMSwNciEwXQ\/s1600\/Garnet+and+Rebecca8.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TKkQjA5onXI\/AAAAAAAAJXs\/NMSwNciEwXQ\/s320\/Garnet+and+Rebecca8.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523964611669826930\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The joy of the Lord is my marriages strength.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><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><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>TTFN<\/span><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making a sacred commitment, the marriage commitment, is fun and freeing. Now don&#8217;t get me wrong, it is also very sacred in our eyes, so sacred that we have done it twice, meaning we have renewed our vows. My husband teases that he now has two sacred vows with the same woman and that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334"}],"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=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}