Becoming, Together
One of these beautiful souls is 43 this month, but because some people have *ahem* less favorable feelings about the inevitable accumulation of years, I ain’t tellin you which.
Marriage is a real doozy of a thing TBH, because it gives you a front row seat to the becoming of another. And becoming seems like it should be pretty straightforward, doesn’t it?, but then it goes and gets all weird and roundabout. Always building, then breaking, then sometimes both at once. Admittedly, sometimes it does seem like becoming would be simpler as a solo affair, what with all the surprising ups and downs of it, and the occasional hanging-on-for-dear-life of it, for oneself, even, not to mention for someone else.
But then… what a thing it is to become together.
Joni Mitchell says this soul-gripping bit that I’ve never been able to shake about staying with someone through the seasons: actually, she quotes someone else as saying, “If you want endless repetition, see a lot of different people. If you want infinite variety, stay with one.”
Then she says, “What happens when you date is you run all your best moves and tell all your best stories — and in a way, that routine is a method for falling in love with yourself over and over.
You can’t do that with a longtime mate because he knows all that old material. With a long relationship, things die, then are rekindled, and that shared process of rebirth deepens the love.”
It’s a privilege to become next to someone, separate and together at the same time. To bear witness to it all, to let die, to rekindle, to be birthed both together. Grateful for all of the yous throughout the seasons, Jason Stone!
About the author: Liana Stone writes from beneath a sometimes literal pile of the most delicious tiny humans you ever saw. She and her effervescent husband, Jason, currently call Oregon home, having moved back from Zanzibar in 2020, where they served with All Nations. Liana had the privilege of not only attending the first Capetonian Church Planting Experience (CPx) in 2008, but attending a second CPx in Cape Town with Jason in 2012 (Double graduate here, people). Both Liana and Jason have a deep love for the All Nations family and are grateful for the way their time working within All Nations has shaped and impacted their life.
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