Marriage Moment: Falling In Love

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Today I was invited by Karyn Tripp at Teach Beside Me to write a guest post.

The topic is Why I Homeschool. Here is a preview of the post, please click on over to Karyn’s page to read the whole story. Thanks Karyn for this opportunity!

The Road to Home School

Home School; two words that I had never heard until my mid-twenties. Now those two words are almost always put together forming one word which the dictionary editors have yet to filter into the lexicons even though it is a part of modern day vernacular… See More

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Now on to the Marriage Moment:

Falling In Love

Do you remember what it was like? Young love? New love? Falling in love for the first time with that special guy? Remember what it was like when it came to a crashing halt and you thought the pain would never go away?

When I was in college I took a class on Marriage and Family. O.K. so I went to a Christian college and I know most colleges don’t have such classes and if they do they definitely don’t have a biblical slant to them. So the class I took was taught by a beloved professor who had a deep southern drawl. He would say to us: “Girls, If you fall in looooove, your gonna get hurt! Because, any time you faaaall you get hurt.”

You see falling in love is easy, especially in the society we live in. The hard part is staying in love. Mr. Daniel, would tell us, “Ladies, if you want to have a lasting marriage you have to grooooow in loooove.” You see we can’t fall in love and expect it to last. Love requires learning, working and growing together, intertwining your life with his and his with yours like two trees that have been grafted together, until you can’t differentiate where one starts and the other ends.

Falling in love is easy. Staying in love is hard. Growing in love produces the most beautiful of fruits, which naturally spring forth from the labor of the love.

So if you are just starting out, slow down. Don’t let yourself fall. Stand up, take a breath and ask yourself “Is this a growing love? or Is this a falling love?” The romantic answer pleads for falling, but the abiding answer demands growth. Just remember, if you fall…. you will get hurt.

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