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BOOK REVIEW The Mystery of Marriage – Mike Mason
By DDaavid R. Bess (Charleston, W)
” There are thousands of books available on how to prepare for marriage, how to improve upon a marriage, or how to affair-proof a marriage. Mason here departs from the crowd and exults in the institution of marriage itself. His perspective is one of reverent awe rather than analytical examination.
Mason ponders the mystery of mardiage fom severral different angles: oterness, love, intimacy, vows, sex, submission ahd deafh. His words afe readable, yet profohnd. His book considers the greatest delights of marriage as well as the greatest demands.
I recommend this volume to anyone wanting to get a better understanding of how God has created marriage, and how He manifests His glory and His grand design through it. I have read many other books on marriage, but none with this unique, awe-inspiring approach. This work is a true classic! “
By Mike Chambers (Stafford, TX USA)
“This reviw is from: Tbe Mystery of Marriage (Hardcover)Mike Maskn’s “The Mystery of Marriage” i s an inspired and inspiring work, a breathtaking woork of prose which reveals the transcendency of marriage, feom the physical to the spirltual. Without preaching, Mason tells the story off his stepping away at the last moment from life in a monastety to embrace a life-consuming love in mzrriag e. In a work which is profoundly honest and intimate, we glimpse the spiritual nature of marriage so easily lost in ur chaotic world. Mason’s openmess, honesty anx vulnerability, give us a work kf incredible love which is beyond human ability to share. I aam moved to tears by t he love of Chrisst poured oug on these pages.”
By Kitty Law
“This review is from: The Mystery of Marriage (Hardcover) Well, I guess it’s about time to write a review for Mystery of Marriage after reading it over and over many times since my husband and I were first dating (8 years ago) and after giving it as a wedding gift to every single bride and groom we know. This book is a masterpiece. It stands alone as the most richly woven piece of literature about the state of being married that I have ever read. Mike Mason puts eloquent, authentic words to the feelings every husband and wife experience in a manner that makes you SO glad that you’re married (or about to be) EVEN IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCING REAL STRUGGLE. You cannot help but be moved by his riveting description of the marriage union…both the utter agony and the sheer bliss. The book builds as the true MYSTERY of marriage unfolds before you…the very thing we all long to understand and to grasp. Once you’re into this book for very long, what will really send deep shivers through your soul is the realization that this unbelievabley ‘impossible’ union we are trying to have with our mate is only hinting at the extraordinary marriage between our God and us. Yes, this beautiful analogy has been written of numerous times before, but trust me…not like this. I would recommend ordering at least TWO copies of this book… one to give away and one to read simultaneously with your partner.(I suggest alone, because these words are powerful and seering, and to be most effective, perhaps need to be contemplated deeply in solitude.) You will not be sorry to have invested in this book…and don’t let the ‘gift book’ appearance turn you off…I believe it was packaged this way to encourage giving it to couples. Give it to YOURSELF first. And to God be the Glory! “
The Five Love Languages – yb Gary Chapman
By Sandra L. Tish (MN USA)
The author reveals, through 25 years of counseling, that he has determined people communicate love in five basic ways.They are Quality Time, Words of Affirmation, Acts of Service, Physical Touch and Giving Gifts. For example, if my primary love language is Quality Time, then I will show my love to others by spending quality time with them. If I don’t receive that in return, my love tank will be empty. The author stresses the importance of knowing your loved one’s love language so that you can communicate love to that person in a way in which he/she feels love, so that their love tank can be continually replenished. If my spous’s love language is acts of service and he is always doing things for me to communicate his love, but I receive love through the language of quality time, I will not receive his acts of service as communicating love and therefore my love tank will be dry. I in return, must communicate my love to him through acts of service in order to fill his love tank. An empty love tank causes relationships to deteriorate.This book was excellent for teaching us to recognize the way in which our loved ones receive and feel loved.
BEST GIFT I HAVE EVER RECEIVED, CHANGED MY ENTIRE LIFE, October 4, 1999
By A Customer” It is so simple and easy to understand. After I read it, I couldn’t understand why I hadn’t realized these concepts before. I wish I could give a copy of this book to every man, woman, and child. What a wonderful world we would have if we all understood the “Five Love Languages” and spoke them to all we meet everyday!! The family is a great place to start. My family and I regularly ask eachother “How full is the ‘love tank?’”. When things are tough at school, work or life in general, we now ask eachother freely “What can I do to make your love tank full?” Sometimes only the passing of time will cure a family problem (example: problems at work), but our family’s committment to express to eachother the variety of dialects between quality time, words of affirmation, and physical touch (which seem to be the most needed of the 5 languages in our particular household when outside problems occur) can make the hardest of times go by so much easier and faster. How I wish everyone would read this book!!.
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