Marriage
This was passed along to me by someone I’m in love with:
“Instead of trekking to Africa or exploring Rome alone, why not marry the person of your dreams and take him or her along? What about discovering, as the characters Carl and Ellie in Disney Pixar’s “Up” do, the good of marital friendship?” and “As focused as we young adults are on self-development, what if the path to that development is actually learning to live with and love another person? We may be startled to find that the greatest adventure lies not in knowing oneself as much as in knowing and committing to another person.”
Young marriage is good. I’ll probably write more about it in the future.
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We go to church with Jens and was just catching up when we found your blog as well. Just looking over who Jens hangs out with. Was curious at the marriage link and thought a comment on marriage would be good to leave. Coming from 2 who learned the hard way what this truly means.
God can show more fully how selfish a person really is when married. That’s when all the things we’ve been learning through God’s Word about sacrificial love more fully comes into play on a daily level. Having an ‘each for the other’ attitude is essential to a God honoring, Christ exalting marriage. Only by His Spirit can we ever hope to be enabled to do these things. Praise God Who gives us a picture of His love, through the bonding of two into one. What a mystery!