Last week, my parents celebrated their 52nd wedding anniversary. It feels like their Golden anniversary was just yesterday, and I thank God for the wonderful blessing their love has been to my family and to the community where they live.
Over 50 years is a lifetime away from when their love began, and an incredible testament to the power of love between one man and one woman. True love is fruitful, and their love brought forth my wonderful family and a witness of self-sacrifice.
I praise God for the wonderful ways in which their love has endured countless trials and tests. Gold is only achieved through the refining and removal of that doesn’t belong so that only the gold is left. The beautiful end doesn’t always show the joys and the pains that it took to get there.
In a world where most of the songs we hear only promote a fast and usable kind of love, I started searching for some good songs that reinforce the beauty of a matrimonial love. There’s the amazing highs and the heart-breaking lows, and a permanence that outweighs the fleeting emotions.
Songs About Love and Life in Matrimony
The following songs are some of my favorites about different aspects of marriage and are in no particular order. Scroll down to the bottom for the full Spotify Playlist
1. To Know Love – Little Big Town
“Cause to know you is to know love
And to know love is to know enough
To walk with you through this life
From now until the day i die
What better way is there to live
Than to live with you”
2. Making Memories of Us – Keith Urban
“I’m going to sleep with you forever
I want to die in your arms”
3. Set Me As a Seal – Matt Maher
“Set me as a seal on your heart
set me as a seal on your soul
Strong as death is love,
unyielding as the grave,
nothing will quench its flame.”
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4. I Have and Always Will – Dave Barnes
“In your darkest hour, will I love you still?
I have and I always will.”
5. Lead Me – Sanctus Real
Show me you’re willing to fight
That I’m still the love of your life
I know we call this our home
But I still feel alone”
So Father, give me the strength
To be everything I’m called to be
Oh, Father, show me the way
To lead them
Won’t You lead me?
6. Restore – Chris August
“He said with this ring I promise, and with I do she said forever
But right now if they’re being honest they don’t know if they’ll stay together
Let’s fast forward to the future after struggling on their own
They finally figured out they needed Jesus in the middle
Now I’m watching God rebuild their home”
7. Broken Together – Casting Crowns
“It’s going to take much more than promises this time
Only God can change our minds
Maybe you and I were never meant to be complete
Could we just be broken together
If you can bring your shattered dreams and I’ll bring mine
Could healing still be spoken and save us
The only way we’ll last forever is broken together”
8. Just Give Me a Reason – Pink Nate Ruess
“Just a second we’re not broken just bent
And we can learn to love again
I never stopped
You’re still written in the scars on my heart
You’re not broken just bent
And we can learn to love again”
9. Have I Told You Lately That I Love You – Michael Bublé ft.Naturally 7
“There’s a love that’s divine
And it’s yours and it’s mine like the sun
And at the end of the day
We should give thanks and pray
To the one, to the oneHave I told you lately that I love you?
Have I told you there’s no one else above you?
Fill my heart with gladness
Take away all my sadness
Ease my troubles that’s what you do”
10. All of Me – John Legend
“Cause all of me
Loves all of you
Love your curves and all your edges
All your perfect imperfections
Give your all to me
I’ll give my all to you
You’re my end and my beginning
Even when I lose I’m winning”
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