Advice for men about to be married

[Father Bill]

I am set to wed in January of 2012. Among many thoughts running through my mind, a good start is found in 1 Corinthians 13.

4Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,

5does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,

6does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8Love never fails

Good. Now if each of you would just substitute one another's name for the word "love" and try it again . . . . Prayers for your happiness and love.

[Burly Brute]

Good. Now if each of you would just substitute one another's name for the word "love" and try it again . . . . Prayers for your happiness and love.

Haha for sure! I think we both have decent heads on our shoulders, we are young, but not too naive. And in some respects I look forward to the hardships that draw us closer together as one flesh and allow us to express our unity. Please, if anything, just be in prayer over my ability to lead as I should and to be a man of integrity.

[Pleater]

Ah - now if you are talking about love: -


Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove:

O no! it is an ever-fixed mark

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wandering bark,

Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come:

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.



William Shakespeare

(1564 - 1616)

[Father Bill]

Haha for sure! I think we both have decent heads on our shoulders, we are young, but not too naive. And in some respects I look forward to the hardships that draw us closer together as one flesh and allow us to express our unity. Please, if anything, just be in prayer over my ability to lead as I should and to be a man of integrity.

Prayers? You got 'em!

Bill

[Burly Brute]

Ah - now if you are talking about love: -


Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove:

O no! it is an ever-fixed mark

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wandering bark,

Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come:

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.



William Shakespeare

(1564 - 1616)

Beautiful, what a legend of a man.

[Burly Brute]

Prayers? You got 'em!

Bill

lol thanks!