A Playlist for Two

Music speaks what words sometimes can't.

Song gives us rhythm, melody, and lyrics that carry everything we sometimes struggle to put into words — heartbreak, joy, wonder, love. 

God Designed Romance to Be Expressed

God celebrated romantic expression between a husband and wife. Right in the middle of Scripture sits Song of Solomon, an entire book devoted to the beauty of love between spouses. It's passionate, poetic, and unashamed. The lovers in that book aren't just coexisting — they're pursuing each other, delighting in each other, and finding creative, heartfelt ways to say "you are everything to me."

Solomon didn't hand his beloved a quick note. He wrote poetry. He used imagery, metaphor, and emotion to express what he felt. In his day, that was the playlist, the love song.

"I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine." — Song of Solomon 6:3

That sense of belonging, of being fully known and fully chosen, is exactly what God intended marriage to carry. And music — like poetry — is one of the most natural ways we express it.

A Song Says More Than You Think

There's intimacy in discovering that a song hits your spouse the same way it hits you, or understanding your spouse in a deeper way when you listen to a song that expresses something about your marriage relationship. Music reveals who we are on the inside — our happiness, our grief, our deepest passions — often more honestly than anything we could say face to face.

Think about the songs already sewn into the fabric of your relationship. There's probably a melody that instantly takes you back — a road trip, a slow dance in the living room, a random night that became a memory you both still talk about. Music doesn't just mark moments. It keeps them alive.

This Month’s Date Night Activity

Here's your challenge for the month: create a playlist together of "our songs" - songs from different seasons of your relationship.

Make it a fun night of reminiscing and expressing your love for each other:

• Take turns adding songs — one person picks, then the other

• Choose songs that remind you both of a shared memory

• Throw in songs that just feel like your relationship

• Add the ones that make you both want to get up and dance — or just sit and feel something

• Don't overthink it. If it makes you think of us, it belongs

  
  

Give yourselves 30 minutes or an hour. Talk about the memories behind the songs. Laugh at the questionable choices. Let a few of them play all the way through.

Your playlist can become a living, growing soundtrack of your marriage, a little piece of your story — something you can return to on long drives, a dance party in the kitchen, lazy Sunday mornings, or future date nights.