MARRIAGE

Source:

SUCCESSFUL FAMILY
Enhancing Relationship With your Spouse
and Children

Author:

Miriam Sarno-Tumanday, Ed D
Former academic VP and graduate school
dean of Adventist University of the Phils
 MARRIAGE AT ITS BEST

It isn’t God’s purpose for man to be alone for

long, because loneliness would be detrimental to
his well-being
God solemnized the first union for life, so the
marriage covenant can appropriately be
called the covenant of God, He having
originated that sacred institution
The warmth of true friendship and the love
that binds the hearts of husband and wife is
a foretaste of heaven

-Ellen G. White(1990), Manuscript Releases ,

Vol.10,p202
Wife: Dear, Do you really love me?
Husband: What’s happening to you?
Wife: Nothing,I just want to know if you
really love me
Husband: Why,you mean you don’t
know?
Wife: Well, I’m not sure after these 15 years
Husband: Foolish!What makes you doubt?
Wife: Really, dear, do you love me?
Husband: You mean we’ve been
together all these years and you don’t
know?
Wife: Why,you haven’t really said I love you since
our wedding day
Husband: Look, we’ve eaten together, slept
together,and lived togetherunder one roof for a
decade and a half---don’t you call that love?
Wife: I don’t know
Husband: I’ve fed you and our children, provided
you a comfortable home, and protected you---isn’t
that love?
Wife: But do you LOVE me?
Husband: Why,of course, I do love you
Wife: (sighs) After 15 years, dear, it’s exhilarating to
hear those words again
 “I LOVE YOU”

The verbalization of love in marriage on a

daily basis makes a deep impression on
both husband and wife, and enriches the
conjugal relationship.
Some people regard the expression of love
as a weakness. But it is the expression of
that love which makes it exist. It is the
repression of that emotion in marriage
which makes it wither and die.
Let some of the hours of courtship before
marriage run through the married life

Ellen G White,The Adventist Home,. p.56

 Man + Woman + God
The spiritual principle is this: it’s not what we
have ,it’s what we do with it. When God
becomes part of the equation, its not what
we get from or even bring into our
marriages, but it’s what we do with His
empowering presence that creates a rich
intimacy and a beautiful relationship

Source: Thomas,G. (2014).A Lifelong Love: What if Marriage Is

More Than Just Staying Together
THE RECKLESSNESS OF LOVE
Love in action always has a certain
extravagance in it, It does not calculate the
less or more. It doesn’t say, “I’ve already
done that to you;it’s too much if I do it
again.”True love doesn’t keep accounts..It
gives all, but all doesn’t seem enough
Yes, love is reckless, never calculating, The
contents of a love-filled heart are poured
on the beloved without counting the cost
Happy Sabbath