Story Behind The Song

I wrote this song as I was preparing to minister to soldiers and their wives about to deploy overseas, as well as for those who were being reunited. I was so moved by the moment, that I sat down and wrote this song in moments.

Song Description

This song about the miracle of marriage focuses on the beginnings of marriage, its ability to go forward even in hard times because of the presence of God in the marriage. In the end, the song poignantly looks at an older couple holding hands and encourages the listener to see that they, too, can have that kind of marriage.

Lyrics

The Miracle of Marriage
© 2009 Words and Music by Michael Anthony Milton; © 2009 Bethesda Words and Music, BMI

In the beginning before time began
God took a rib from a sleeping man
And fashioned a woman to make humanity
This is how it came to be

And He called for the man to love his wife
With all of his power for all of his life
And He called for the woman to honor her man
This much we understand

But there's more to the song
Because something went wrong
And the good that God made became flawed

But the miracle of marriage is God

When a man and a woman fall in love
No Cupid shoots arrows from Hollywood
But when love becomes commitment
And commitment turns to vows
The angels begin to applaud

For the miracle of marriage is God

Don't tell me that a marriage that began with such power
Must be thrown overboard for the sea to devour
When there's grace from the One
Who speaks stillness to the sea
And who welcomed a sinner like me
Say, Honey, I'm beginning to see

That the elderly couple in the nursing home
Holding hands in a world that seems all their own
Must have come through times of struggle and
Must have come through times of pain And yet this special love remains

Because a long time ago
Each of them had to let go
Of their own lives to find this love

And the miracle of marriage is from above
Yes the miracle of marriage is His love