‘Your marriage’, he said, ‘should have within it, a secret and protected place open to you alone. Imagine it to be a walled garden, entered by a door to which only you hold the key.
‘Within this garden you will cease to be a mother, father, employee, homemaker or any other of the roles which you fulfil in daily life.
Here you are yourselves two people who love each other.
Here you can concentrate on one another’s needs.
‘So take my hand and let us go back to our garden.
The time we spend together is not wasted but invested.
Invested in our future and the nurture of our love.’
Anon
I think this particular reading is so appropriate for today’s hectic world, when we have so many responsibilities and so little time…
