Love's Sacred Knot

The tie that binds

Oh, sacred thread

Woven by Holy God

As vows unite

Two hearts to one

And ties love’s hallowed knot

The tie that binds

No hand or pen

Its tenure can annul

Oh, precious cord

Secured by He

Who gives the knot its pull

The tie that binds

Love’s cherished bond

Of truth and faithfulness

A shackle

Not of cumbrous weight

But trust and tenderness

The tie that binds

Its filament

No human hand can sever

The tie that binds

Husband and wife

As God joins them together

© Janet Martin

The Ties that Bind...Don Williams

This Tie that Binds...A Marriage Poem

This tie that binds

Man cannot see

Nor cut its strands asunder

What God has joined

Will ever be

Until one passes yonder

The sacred promise

Two hearts make

In love’s most holy union

Will form a cord

Man cannot break

By any measure human

Two on earth

Say ‘I take thee’

As hallowed vows are spoken

Two on earth

And God makes three

A cord not quickly broken

This tie that binds

Oh, what great peace

To know man cannot sever

But death, will be

Its sad release

As love lives on forever

This tie that binds

Our grief, our joy

Its tenure will not falter

Though storms refine

But not destroy

The vow made at loves alter

This tie that binds

Man cannot see

Not part its strands asunder

What God has joined

Will ever be

His holy, sacred wonder

© Janet Martin

 Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. 

A cord of three strands is not quickly broken. Eccles. 12:4

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. Mark 10:9

Wedding Poem

How can we know how long is the road
Or its twisting and its winding
We stand here today and vow for aye
A promise pure and binding
Upon this earth, for better or worse
Let nothing tear asunder
May God’s will be done as two become one
A thing of heavenly wonder

In sickness and health, in poverty or wealth
In fair or stormy weather
In high tide or low, through-out life’s ebb and flow
May we be stronger together
As we share smiles and tears and as miles become years
May our love and respect never wane
But each to the other be faithful forever
And unto each other remain

May God above with His perfect love
Be our eternal Guide
May He enfold us, keep and hold us
Ever side by side
Husband and wife for the rest of this life
Oh, may it simply be
A foretaste of the love that waits up above
In Heaven’s eternity

Janet Martin~

He Married His Sweetheart....

He married his sweet-heart today
Promised to love her forever and aye
For better or worse until death doth part
Joined from above with a mystical cord
Nobody knows what tomorrow will bring
But from this day forward they are one ‘with this ring’

Together through good times and bad
Someday to recall what a sweet life they had
To cherish, to love and honor always
And only God knows the number of days
Or how long their vow of forever will be
Before one must cross the last dark sea

He married his sweetheart today
Father in heaven I pray
Keep Your hand on them wherever they go
For mountains are high and the valleys are low
Father, be with them always
He married his sweetheart today

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Janet Martin