The Triangle

When Ken and I were preparing to get married, we went through a series of marriage counseling with the pastor who was to do our ceremony. One key thing that he said back then even sticks in my mind today. He drew a picture of a triangle, with me on one of the bottom corners, Ken on the opposite bottom corner, and God as the top corner. He explained that the closer we are in our relationship to the Lord, the closer to each other we become. It just happens. It's a natural thing. It's the way He intended it. Last night I had a great picture of how that happens as Ken and I were talking out some of the tough things of life and then the conversation turned to the Lord and how we are both learning things specifically from different areas of His word. We both ended up on the loveseat together sitting close looking through the book of James together and Corinthians and talking about how different areas of passages stood out to us. I went to bed thinking about how with even just our conversation of what the Lord is teaching each of us, that He was there with us too. He is the head and the completion of our triangle. It's becoming more and more apparent to me that as I look to the Lord as my first true love, how much more love and devotion I feel toward my husband. He is teaching me things even now about Ken that I feel like I am learning for the first time, and it just makes me feel that much closer to Ken. What a wonderful gift to be able to allow the intimacy shared with my God to spill over into the most intimate moments of my marriage.