04 Apr 2009 08:58 AM

Salt of Your Marriage

As you might know salt is a preservative, an element added to food to prevent spoilage. As salt is for food, you and your spouse contain the salt that preserves your marriage. Your salt could be things like your patience, consideration, personality, affection, and other things that contribute to making your bond with your spouse unique & worthwhile. These attributes have developed over time from life experiences and the relationships that have come and gone. Then, a perfect moment came along as you introduced yourself to the person that would soon cherish, understand, and appreciate your individual attributes, as you also do theirs. Then, you decided to tie the knot and place all of those attributes into one joint venture. After a short period of time, you experienced one of the most important keys to a marriage or any relationship, the ability to change. And as you changed the attributes began merging together and as they merge you found you had fewer arguments and agreed on a lot of views. I’m not going to lie and say “Then the rest of your life became happily ever after,” but I will say that as you grow together, you change together, and as you change together, you learn each other, and as you learn each other you seem to become each other. The point of this post can be better understood in the following activity: * Take a small container and pour enough salt to cover the bottom of the glass or container * Now have your spouse pour half of the salt in their hand * Then you pour the other half in your hand * Now have your spouse add their salt back into container and then add yours back as well * Shake the container a little so that all the salt mixes together * Now the question for both of you is "How do you get your salt back out? This activity can help you understand the ignorance of separation and divorce. If you can get your salt out of the container then those things are justified. Just a little hint: It is impossible! In the same way it should be impossible for two people that love each other to separate or divorce.Understanding this concept is a key to the endurance of any relationship, not just marriage. This metaphor gave me a better appreciation and understanding of my commitment to my wife. She depends on my salt being there and just one weekend away from here I realize I depend on her salt being there too. After experiencing this activity I went to my bible and read this exert, "A man shall leave his mother and father and cling to his wife and they shall become one flesh." With the salt example and this passage it's evident that marriage is a form of surgery. Taking to flesh making them one flesh. You and your spouse are one flesh now. To preserve flesh, like beef, chicken, or pork, we need salt. Understand that you and your spouse are the salt that preserves your marriage "until death do you part."

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