001 – A marriage in God's plan
This Christian Podcast by the Christian Author George Calleja includes the following:
Recently I was reading some parts of the ‘Catechism of the Catholic Church’. I was struck by a particular paragraph 1,605 which states the following:-
Holy Scripture affirms that man and woman were created for one another: "It is not good that the man should be alone." The woman, "flesh of his flesh," i.e., his counterpart, his equal, his nearest in all things, is given to him by God as a "helpmate"; she thus represents God from whom comes our help. "Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh." The Lord himself shows that this signifies an unbreakable union of their two lives by recalling what the plan of the Creator had been "in the beginning": "So they are no longer two, but one flesh."
The above paragraph evoked inside me a desire to thank the Lord for the upbringing my parents gave me. Through the love my mother and father gave me, I could really experience the love of the Father, the Creator. God’s plan for my life was possible through the oneness of my mother and father. Together as one, my mother and father gave me the love presented to them by the Father.
‘Yes Lord, I do thank you for the marriage of my parents, for through them I was a gift in their lives, a gift to all the family. Lord, over the years I have realised how important my mother and father were in my life. They expressed to me how much you love me in a personal way’.
As the Holy Scripture affirms that a man and woman were created for one another, through the upbringing received from my parents, and through my relationship with Jesus, I have come to understand more the value that in God’s plan, marriage is between a man and a woman. I thank you Lord that through my mother and father you have transmitted to me the precious love of the Father.
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“In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.”
It is very precious when we help the people around us. We must do this out of love, to give to the other person the Love of God.
Through our act of help, we give the opportunity to the other person to experience God. We can be a witness of Gods Love by the help we provide to other people.
Let us forget the differences we have with the people around us, and focus how to build unity and peace through the help we provide to others.
