Dear family
and friends, the experience I had during 62 years of marriage until my husband
left for eternity is very great and valuable. I thank God for granting me a
stable marriage with a wonderful man. From this beautiful relationship, God
granted us a bouquet of 11 children with a whole line of descendants.
I really
have a lot of good advice to give all of you so that you can have and sustain
stable and blessed marriages. Let me hardly summarize these tips in just 3:
1- GOD must
always be reigning among couples and they must allow the Holy Spirit to always
guide them. This is because we are foolish and weak who, through our own
efforts, would not achieve anything.
2- Couples
must have joined only for TRUE LOVE; since there are many marriages made for
personal or family convenience, for money, for physical appearance, for social
position or just sexual attraction. Any man or woman who marries for purposes
other than the true love they feel towards each other is certain to fail. I say man or woman because in these times
same-sex marriage is happening; obviously this is outside of God's design. I am
talking about couples, man and woman, united by true love that meet these
requirements, will hardly fail. This is because true love comes from God and
GOD IS LOVE. True love is a love so sublime that it can do everything,
understands everything, endures it, waits for it, and forgives it. Fake love and sensual love is not true
love. True love is sacred feeling that if you love your partner
with sincere and true love it will not cost you much sacrifice to fight to make
them feel comfortable and happy.
3- In this
kind of love there is HUMILITY that is so important among relationships.
Although couples follow the above advice and fight to ensure that there are no
conflicts in their marriage, if at least one of the two is not humble, the
marriage would be a failure. The opposite of humility is haughtiness, jealousy,
pride, arrogance, selfishness, resentment and envy.
A humble
person forgets about himself and is always worried that his partner is well,
regardless of the sacrifice he has to make for her.
But
everything does not have to be advice; So I tell you a beautiful little story,
we could call it “Couples with Wisdom.” This one says like this:
In old age a
humble wife asked: Why did we reach this stage of life together? And the old
man answers: Because instead of shouting, we talk; Instead of running away, we
look for solutions. Also because everything or nothing belonged to the two of
us; because we cry and laugh together; because one day we promised each other
and we kept it to be together in the good and the bad. But above all because
our love grew over time in the form of the love of God (unconditional), which
is the one that never ends. Remember, stable marriages are not impossible. Of
course JESUS CHRIST must be the center of their lives and they must fight not
with their own strength, but with divine help.
Couples have
their ups and downs, but walking together hand in hand with JESUS, the journey
becomes easier.
Taking into
account the small everyday moments, a special and valuable marriage
relationship is built.
Within
Christian marriage couples is the powerful God who unites them and makes them
so strong that they will always look at the goals and not the circumstances.
Get up! And
look at the morning full of light, walk and fight in this life together so that
you can enjoy the other life that is eternal and therefore the most important.
But this is only possible with JESUS CHRIST. Receive it right now. Make the
best decision of your life. Cheer
up!
May God
bless your homes always!
With love,
Maria Fanny Agudelo
1/20/2025
