I woke up the other day to a barrage of emails in my inbox from blogger. My friend's boyfriend had apparently discovered my blog and decided to read and post on every other odd. Like and eEaster Egg hunt, I challenge you to find and read his comments.
One of them, a quotation, I wanted to re-post just in case not everyone has subscribed to my comments on their Google Reader...
"Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to."
-Tolkien
It reminded me of something a friend of mine once told me: if it were possible to miss "the one" then it would take a very short time for the entire world to end up marrying the wrong people--because if you married someone else's "one" instead of your own, then you'd be messing up the marriage of their partner, who would marry someone else, and screw up another couple...and so on and so forth. In a world of sinful people (who, left unguided, would most likely screw things up pretty quickly), there's got to be a larger something coordinating things.
Still, we obsess. And in obsessing over trying to find that "more suitable mate," we get a little skittish at settling down with anyone. We believe the lie that some other person (the one we will marry) is going to be what makes us happy, when the Bible says that marriage itself (and the intimacy of relationship experienced therein) will be the blessing we long for.
While an imperfect person will certainly disappoint, God's design in marriage will continue to make us more holy and happy with each passing year.
Friday, October 17, 2008
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