Marital love is like this in that it also seizes upon men and women with irresistible force. Marital love, as it were, kills the person it afflicts in regards to everything and anyone else. Meadow Larks and Rainbows A story is told of a farm girl who spoke of sparrows that sang like meadow larks and of rainbows that formed in the soap bubbles when the dishwater was thrown on the road. Marital love means that the one you love has in love chosen you above all others on the earth. It consumes everything in its flames.
Marital love is like that.
The lover and the beloved are inflamed by each other. There is a spark between them. Lightning flashes when they come together. Today, books, movies, and soap operas depict sex not marital love as a fire that engulfs two people. But God's will is that this flame of desire be within the context of marital love.