One love. The Right Love. Not the sweet compromising love of pleasing others to obtain peace. The rugged yet gentle love of the shepherd standing in all-weather watching those who without that guard would perish or suffer the ravages of time and predator.

Yes, shepherd may Love truly, but not the honey covered, chocolate love or romantic fervor. For what relation may withstand the moment that God demands otherwise? What man may love His wife completely when God directs a path which challenges that doting?

When has a man reached that point where these choices, this life is no longer his own? Is it when wife may lay out a sequence or parameters that alleviate the direct response and immediate reaction in obedience to all that God commands?

How then does God bless this Holy Union? Does He reduce the requirement upon the shepherd who has found wife? Does He allow the disregard or change in focus upon the sheep known to wonder, ponder or flee? How does a man of God adjust or compromise in relationship with wife before God?

Can the man accustomed to prophet’s sweater find the silky comfort of marriage anything but complacency of purpose? Is there a paradigm that allows both to prosper? Is it truly two people coming together to do more than one may do alone? Is there a union before God that answers all respondents?

Paul warned against it for the man who would serve God fully. How then can anyone fool themselves beyond the words of Apostle and Spirit, believing himself beyond the effects common to such as have seen it through? What may I ask of you Lord when my joy is to give it all?

I am not declaring that God may never do the impossible, especially in men accustomed to seeing it done each day. Just questioning the faulty reasoning and hopeful thinking of any man who already knows the truth of Gospel. What compels each of us find that answer within? A reflection, perhaps it is Imago Dei?