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LEISURE
HAPPINESS IN
21ST CENTURY
MARRIAGE:
FFAICCTTIOORN?
ABy John Kioko Then comes the great question: is it possible to achieve real
young man sat on a bench and started happiness through companionship and love? What is marriage
daydreaming; fantasizing about his dream and how did the creator intend it to be like?
car, then suddenly his attention is taken
by a lady passing by. Oh! how graceful Marriage is the oldest institution known to man. It dates back
the lady is; an object of pure beauty and to creation in the Garden of Eden. God Himself performed the
bliss unparalleled. Girding his loins like the first marriage ceremony. He also gave away the first bride. You
famed Job of old, he squares his shoulders, will find the beautiful story in the first two chapters of your
walks to the lady and pops the question. Bible.
“What do I need a man for anyway? I have a stove that smokes Reading the dear old story again reminds us of God’s primary
all day, a cat that stays out all night, a back that goes out more purpose in marriage. It was to make two people happy. When
than I do and a TV that curses all the time. I am perfectly happy He linked the first man and woman, He did so with their best
the way I am!” the lady answers. The young man is shocked good in mind. He knew that only by sharing life together could
by this answer. Sadly, he walks away heart broken and with a they taste its richest joys.
deflated ego.
The Pharisees came to Jesus with this tricky question about
As I contemplate about this scenario, questions arise in my divorce, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” Jesus
mind. Is the old concept of true love and marriage outdated answered, “Have you not read that He who made them from
and not befitting this advanced 21st Century? Has science and the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘For this
education rendered God obsolete? If so, then why are there reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined
more cases of stress related problems among the learned and to his wife and the two shall be one? So they are no longer two
advanced cliques in Society?
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