Sojourner

Miki Matsubara - Mayonaka no Doa / Stay With Me [Translation + Romaji]

To you, yes my love, to you

“I am only me.  You are only you.” I said that last night and still feel the same way You in your gray jacket with that familiar coffee stain Just as you always are Our reflection in the display window

Stay with me… Knocking on Midnight’s door, begging you not to go home The season is right in front of your eyes Stay with me Saying our favorite words, holding on to our little moment I’ll never forget it as long as I live

John 1:14 ESV And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 1:1 ESV In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Titus 2:13 ESV Waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,

I think we are looking for the wrong things. I think the joy and the fulfillment of marriage is not bound up in the initial attraction, it's bound up in the depth of the covenant which you make. In fact I worry about this a lot, I threaten to take all the single men and put them over here and all the single women and put them over here and I'll match them up. But if I did that nobody would show up, I am aware of that. It's the grace of life. It's the best that life has to offer and there are going to be a lot of really sad people in their old age who don't have a life partner, don't have children, don't have grandchildren, and we have 4 great grandchildren now and they are just the greatest joy in our life to see righteousness passed down generation to generation.

You really have to get over the world's design of a marriageable person and find someone who loves the Lord and say, 'I want to care for you as Christ cares for his Church.' And I really blame the men - I mean there are some guys who have tried and girls keep saying 'No, thanks'- I understand that and there may be some blame there. But my constant prayer is that the Lord will direct young men to find a godly woman and live the full life that God intends in marriage."