Oil and Water Can Mix



God is a fixed point. As we grow closer to
God, we grow closer together.

 During our recent wedding in the Catholic Church, my wife and I had chosen a reading from the Book of Tobit...Tobit 8:4-8 to be exact.

This is where Tobiah told his wife, Sarah, to get up out of bed and pray with him.  We chose this reading for our wedding because we have always prayed together and we thought it fit us.  We had told our priest about our prayer life, so when he came to the sermon during the wedding, he focused on this reading.

He told us of how if you were to take a bottle and fill it half full of water and then fill the other half with oil, the two would remain separated.  If you shook the bottle, the oil and water would mix together temporarily, but if you let it rest, the two parts would once again separate.  But if you added a few drops of glycerin, the water and oil would join together and become the same liquid.  Three liquids become one.

God is the glycerin in a marriage.  Without him, a man and a woman are like oil and water.  They never truly come together in the most intimate way.  Add God into the marriage, and the man and the woman will form a bond together that truly cannot be broken by any man.  Three people become one.

It felt good to hear the priest say that he truly believed this marriage would be a strong one...because it was being held together by God.

If your marriage is in need of some glycerin...it is free and plentiful...you only need to ask for some.