Popcorn's Post Nuptial Ponderings

Mr. Popcorn likes for me to lead a short devotional in our adult Sunday school class each week. Last Sunday the devotional was from a little book called Making a Good Marriage Better. The average length of marriage in our class is about 17 years, Mr. Popcorn and I skew it a little with our 28 big ones. The couples in our class have good marriages apparently since they are still intact after many years, and who doesn't want to make it better? We discussed that in Genesis 2:24 we are told that two shall become one flesh. Walking around as two people with two personalities, two intellects, two this and two that, as one flesh? Is this possible? Well, yes, it is. Is it hard? Yes, so hard. For the Popcorns it is something that fluctuates all the time. Sometimes we feel like one, act like one, are one. And sometimes we don't. Yep, that's right. The marriage pendulum swings wide, doesn't it? Each moment a certain balance must be met. A teetering seesaw whose fulcrum is all at once physical, mental, and spiritual attraction packaged in our actions, our glances, our words, and our touch. As long as that balance is maintained a marriage can flourish. Keeping our mate's needs above our own is the secret to maneuvering as one flesh and keeping the seesaw in play. As humans, we can't do that without lots of prayer and giving up ourselves to Christ daily. Only with His help can we keep both sides of the seesaw suspended allowing all four feet to dangle joyfully during the ride.