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Love and Synergy - Contemplating the Contemporary Romance

4/29/2012

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Let's talk for a minute about love and synergy and what that may mean for us living in a contemporary world.      
    
    One of my favorite pieces of art work is a striking painting which hangs in my  boudoir.  The painting by Alex Corrbrey  entitled, Synergy is an abstract representation of a physical and spiritual union of a couple. This work adorns our bedroom wall because it symbolises our commitment to work through the pleasure and pain of creating something beautiful - beautiful children, an exemplary  ministry, a hub of creativity and a home that reflects our spirituality. 
    This thing called love which culminates in the ultimate synergistic act of marriage is sacred, spiritual, sensual and even scriptual. Love in its proper setting is a harmonious waltz, a symbiotic exchange, a tantric embrace, and a synergistic partnership ignited.
     So what does this mean for contemporary seekers of love's flame? Is it any different from the days when Adam and Eve strolled in the garden, when  Sarah and Abraham's union gave birth to a nation? Is it a different tune than the lyrical love poem sung in the  song of Solomon? {My Lover is mine and I am his}
    Have we lost the ability to harmonize as members of the opposite sex, coming together in the sanctity of marriage to create something much stronger, more powerful than  what we could achieve in a solitary and depressing date with a toy. Will our preoccupation with self , hedonism and  holding on to our 'self - accumulated' wealth, prevent us from entering into a wholly holy and trusting relationship with our friend as lover.
{Song of Solomon- Woman- "Take me with you, lets run together"  Man - "come away with me from Lebanon my bride."}

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Synergy II by Alex Corbbrey
Depending on who you talk to these days, love is not so. It  may have morphed into a bitter pill fraught with the dangers of disharmony, false testimony
and the ever looming prospect of alimony. When did the alchemy of love of  Solomon fame - apples, mandrake flowers, wine, honey and pomegranates sour into a toxic chemical romance. Case in point {Song of Beyonce - the 2012 Most Beautiful woman in the world. She croons,  "To the Left, To the Left, let me call you a taxi to pick you and some of your stuff up from the curb - and when the cab comes, quick quick get in it, cos my new lover will be here in a
minute}
    Is love so fleeting because it is so replaceable? But let's do take that minute while we stand in the gap by the curb reflecting on the multitude of infidelities that got us to this spot  on the street corner. As we  stand on the sidelines of our relationships eyeing  our box of worldly possessions and how much is left in it,  let's just pause and shine the light of truth on God's original intentions.
     What was in the manuscript of His pre writing  for Humanity's Love Story . Did His idea web not include taking a rib from man and weaving into a woman so as they would become one? Was the story not one based on
synchrony, harmony and synergy - a symphony of two, working in a paradisiacal partnership of mutual respect and romance?

    What happened to the notion of happiness in our relationships when others will admire a lovestruck  woman and say, "Who is that young woman that shines out like the dawn? (Song of Solomon)  and of the man they will liken his countenance to the sun, shining like a bridegroom emerging from his bedroom (Psalm 19:5).
   Each morning when the new day dawns I still bask in the glow of my partner's embrace and I still kneel and pray that I will continue to set him as a seal on my heart and he in turn will stand firm in our commitment that many waters will not quench our love nor can the floods drown it. In sickness and in health, till death do us part or till that day comes when we stand before His throne to be  presented as a bride of the Lamb.
Love and Blessings
ZPora
Love and Synergy - My lover is mine and I am his.... (Songs of Solomon)
1 Comment
Stephen
9/15/2018 01:22:08 pm

Awesome commentary of an awesome work of art.

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