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| One Flesh | ||
 Genesis 2:24,25 |
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is about the deepest trust that yields and loves as openly as one human being can yield to and love another. About riotous love-making, honouring and pampering and playing sensuously, celebrating to the full flesh-love. About treasuring the beauty of quiet moments when silence becomes love's language, holding the other so delicately, with the deepest respect, as another private person of great dignity who sometimes must occupy a space that is not mine. About bearing in the soul the pain of the other which may lead to the strongest tear-filled oneness, or, for a time, the toughest tearing of the fibres of the soul in separateness. About seeing in children the astonishing unfolding images not just of parents and grand-parents (See his nose? Her ears? Funny toes? How like his uncle, the way he walks!) not just in their likeness, but in the image of the Creator. About holding little ones until they find their own strength, and of letting them go on their own wilful, wonderful way. About choicemaking: for another, particular person - this man, this woman, I love unlike any other; For the sharing of life - forgoing some of the freedoms of singleness for the dreams and company of the one I love. About a miracle merging of hearts and lives in which I am my own self but also I am changed in loving and being loved. About believing that life is both present, intensely, amazingly so, and future, about growing in beauty and in wisdom, and finding and nurturing such growth in the other as the days, and the years, roll by, hair falls out or about or changes colour, creases of the skin deepen, and beauty takes new body shapes undreamed of by advertisers, And ideas and needs and interests change. About loving Spirit-enriched, generously, foolishly, deliriously, not keeping score, forgiving and being forgiven and tasting the exquisite sweetness of it all rather than allowing frailty to tear asunder what God so mysteriously, so mischievously, so caringly, calls to be One flesh. Ross lives in Canberra, Australia. He is the director/administrator of Barnabas Ministries, Inc., which offers ministers of the Gospel a place to pause, refresh their perspective, and renew their acquaintance with God. |
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