Advice for Newlyweds

Advice for Newlyweds


How long can love last?
When is the honeymoon over?
When does love change and mature?
When does the landscape change
to gravel from fields of clover?

Will you know how to handle
that first heated argument?
Will harsh words or silence rule?
Or will you kneel down and ask our Lord
for help that is heaven sent?

When illness and financial worries
make life too hard to endure,
where will you turn for help?
You won’t want to ask your parents,
too embarrassing, that’s for sure!

When someone outside of your marriage
catches your wandering eye
whose advice can you trust?
Will you strongly resist temptation,
or cover your tracks and lie?

Love is as fragile as butterfly wings
but can also be strong like steel
forged in the hottest fire.
If you always remember our Father
knows exactly how you feel.

And if you want your marriage to last
through the good and the bad as it falls,
it’s on Him you must rely.
He is counselor, friend, and confessor
therapist, healer, et al!