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2- Do we regard our wives as our bodies? Understanding that we
are parts of one unique union and creation. Caring for her as we
care for ourselves.

3- Do we love their spots, wrinkles and blemishes away?
Realizing that rejecting them will be as rejecting ourselves.
Pushing them away will increase the blemishes and only allowing
His love through us toward them will remove and replace the
damage with restoration and beauty.

If you fail, as most of us will. Return and receive more love and
care from The Bridegroom Lover of your soul. Remember, all
that the Lord asks of you, He will produce in you. Through
union, and intimacy with Him. Romans 7:4 reminds us that
through our marriage union with the risen Lord, we will bear fruit
for God. In Galatians 5:22 we have the familiar list of fruit. The
passage says “The fruit of the Spirit” and doesn’t say fruits. I
believe what the Lord is saying here is that the fruit of the Spirit is
love. The fruit of the Spirit is Jesus. God is love.

“The fruit of the Spirit is Love”, which tastes like, “Joy, Peace,
Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness and
Self-control”. The fruit of union with the Lord is always His Son.
It’s not what would Jesus do? So you can fake imitating Him. It’s
the fruit of love, which has the aroma of Christ. He is calling you
to His chambers, and the ecstasies of the divine romance.

I believe the Lord likes His Bride, “Barefoot and pregnant”.
Barefoot, so we don’t wander too far from Him. Pregnant, with
His Son. Saying “Yes”, like the Virgin Mary, when she reversed
the curse of Eve. “Let it be done to me, according to Your will, Oh
Lord! I am Your love-slave!” Eve said, “How can we do it our
way?” Satan tried to help them achieve that self-protecting
goal…. he is still doing that for those who ask for his help.

By loving surrender to God’s Holy Spirit, Mary surrendered in love
and received the seed of God. She conceived, carried and
delivered the greatest gift in the history of creation. We have