Marriages fail when love is regarded not as something
transparent like a window pane which looks out on heavens, but as
something opaque like a curtain which sees nothing beyond the human.
When couples do not see that love of the flesh is the preface to the
love of the spirit, one of the partners is often made the object of
idolatry, the worship of the image of the reality; the mistaking of the
copy for the original, and the frame for the picture.
Human love promises something only GOD can give. When GOD is ignored in love, the one who was worshiped as a deity is discovered not to be a god or even an angel. Because he or she did not give all that was promised, being incapable of giving it,because he is not DIVINE, the other feels betrayed, deceived, disappointed and cheated. The stem of the rose is blamed for not bearing what it could not bear, the marble bust of deity. This result is that erotic love turns to hate when the other is discovered to have feet of clay-to be a woman instead of an angel, to be a man instead of Apollo. When the ecstasy does not continue, and the band stops playing, and the champagne of life loses its sparkle, the other partner is called a cheat and a robber-and then finally called to a divorce court on the grounds of incompatibility.
TO BE CONTD...
Human love promises something only GOD can give. When GOD is ignored in love, the one who was worshiped as a deity is discovered not to be a god or even an angel. Because he or she did not give all that was promised, being incapable of giving it,because he is not DIVINE, the other feels betrayed, deceived, disappointed and cheated. The stem of the rose is blamed for not bearing what it could not bear, the marble bust of deity. This result is that erotic love turns to hate when the other is discovered to have feet of clay-to be a woman instead of an angel, to be a man instead of Apollo. When the ecstasy does not continue, and the band stops playing, and the champagne of life loses its sparkle, the other partner is called a cheat and a robber-and then finally called to a divorce court on the grounds of incompatibility.
TO BE CONTD...
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