"Prayer is co-laboring with God. That is how people work together: by talking together."

-JP Moreland, professor at Biola



The Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth -Mal 2:14

Rejoice in the wife of your youth -Prov 5:18

MY YOUTH

Reading "wife of your youth," I thought that surely
You designed marriage to begin early.
Since I'm 27, I began to pray then
That I would get married in two-thousand-ten.

I'm your coworker and my will plays a role
That's why I ask for the desires of my soul.
But I'm holding this loosely; I want your will for me.
I'm willing to let you do it differently.

I am open to you surprising me
In another time and way than I foresee.
Like Mary, who bore you, may my answer be yes
To whatever you offer, I stand in openness.

I'm going into this open to a curve ball:
Marriage may not be my true wish after all
So much as I wish to spend my youth well,
To live with purpose and invest in the eternal.

That being said, I still often pray
For a man of your choosing to come my way.
This is what I feel led to do
Though I might be wrong; this might not be from you.

If it is not from you, you will make it clear;
You'll say, "Marriage-in-youth is not for you, my dear."
It was an honest mistake and I'll let out a sigh,
But it's no big deal and you won't let me die.