https://jabel.blog/categories/marriage/ en Mon, 28 Sep 2026 06:31:36 -0400 https://jabel.blog/2026/09/28/faithful-married-love.html Mon, 28 Sep 2026 06:31:36 -0400 http://jabel.micro.blog/2026/09/28/faithful-married-love.html <p>From Wendell Berry&rsquo;s May 2022 Sabbath poem:</p> <blockquote> <p>But the old man knows, contrarily, that this world<br> was made by love. He knows it because that love<br> came to him one time in the person of a girl<br> and it abides in the girl&rsquo;s great-grandmotherhood.<br></p> </blockquote> <p>He knows the world was made by love <em>because</em> of his experience of faithful love. As below, so above&ndash;an inversion of the Hermetic saying.</p> <p>Faithful love makes it easier to believe in cosmic love, not because we make God in our image, but because faithful love participates in the co-creation of the cosmos.</p>