Marriage covenant

i have read this article from the book i kiss dating goodbye which really inspire me.

For girls

I have leveled with the girls – from Anchorage to Amarillo

I tell them that all marriages are happy

It’s the living together afterward that’s tough

I tell them that a good marriage is not a gift,

It’s an achievement

That marriage is not for kids. It takes guts and maturity.

It separates the men from the boys and the women from the girls.

I tell them that marriage is tested daily by the ability to compromise.

It’s survival can depend on being smart enough to know what’s worth fighting about.

Or making an issue of or even mentioning.

Marriage is giving – and more important, it’s forgiving.

And it is almost always the wife who must do these things.

Then, as if that were not enough, she must be willing to forget what she forgave.

Often that is the hardest part.

For Guys

Do you know you have asked for the costliest thing

Ever made by the Hand above?

A woman’s heart, and a woman’s life-

And a woman’s wonderful love.

Do you know you have asked for this priceless thing

As a child might ask for a toy?

Demanding what others have died to win,

With the reckless dash of a boy

You have written my lesson of duty out,

Manlike, you have questioned me.

Now stand at the bars of my woman’s soul

Until I shall question thee

You require your mutton shall always be hot,

Your socks and your shirt be whole

I require your heart be true as God’s stars

And as pure as His heaven your soul

You require a cook for your mutton and beef,

I require a far greater thing

A seamstress you’re wanting for socks and shirts – I look for a man and a king

A king for the beautiful realm called Home

And a man that his maker, God

Shall look upon as He did on the first

And say: “It is good.”

I am fair and young, but the rose may fade

From this soft young cheek one day

Will you love me then ‘mid the falling leaves,

As you did ‘mong the blossoms of May?

Is your heart an ocean so strong and true,

I may launch my all on its tide?

A loving woman finds heaven or hell

On the day she is made a bride

I require all things that are grand and true,

All things that a man should be

If you give this all, I would stake my life

To be all you demand of me

If you cannot be this, a laundress and cook

You can hire and little to pay

But a woman’s heart and woman’s life

Are not to be won that way

This article has change my view on marriage and to see myself someone who is very precious.i have learn not to give my heart and life simply to guys unless i believe he is the one....