Meditate on the Spiritual Significance of Marriage
In the 20th Anniversary Edition of this Gold Medallion Award winner,
Mike Mason goes on a poetic search to understand the wondrous dynamics
of committed love. In highly readable, first-person style, Mason's
writing stimulates readers' thoughts and prayers and propels couples to
deeper intimacy. "A marriage is not a joining of two worlds," says the
author, "but an abandoning of two worlds in order that one new one might
be formed." Rich chapters on "Otherness," "Vows," "Intimacy," "Sex,"
"Submission," and an all-new chapter on "Oneness" lift readers to view
the eternal, spiritual nature of this faith-filled, "impossible,"
wild--yet wonderful--frontier.
"An outstanding achievement. Rarely has a book aroused in me so much
enthusiasm as has the combination of wisdom, depth, dignity, and glow
that I find in these chapters."
-J.I. Packer
"Absolutely exquisite. It reaches down deep into our innermost being,
revealing, revitalizing, rewarding. A real classic."
-Gigi Graham Tchividjian
"A drop everything book. Mason deals with the stunning paradoxes of the
mystery, the problems, and the glories of marriage. I don't need to read
any other book on the subject."
-Elisabeth Elliot
Story Behind the Book
"Over the twenty years since its publication, many couples have told me
that they've read my book aloud to each other. This always amazes me and
gives me great joy. I'm also amazed that many single people have read
it. Either way, my goal is for hearts to be warmed by the mystery of
divine love. I want couples to enter into deeper intimacy by thinking
together about the mystery of marriage--about how their love, besides
being a gift of God, reflects the very love He has for Himself in the
Trinity. For God is not a bachelor, and throughout the Bible marriage is
a supreme picture of the nature of God's love and of His kingdom. I want
people who read my book to feel so soaked in these wonderful, divine
mysteries that it deepens their reverence for marriage and inspires them
to greater love."
-Mike Mason
