Monday, 18 May 2009

• Marry me please

  Belonging to a group on face book, I was sent the following and was so in agreement that I felt it needed to be shared here too. I hope you take something away from it no matter where you are in your realtionship with another.

  The unknowns of marriage...
  
  Success in marriage is more than finding the right person. It's becoming the right person
  
  1 Timothy 6:11 (King James Version)
  11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
  
  In Thorton Wilder's play The Skin of Our Teeth, the character Mrs Antrobus says to her husband, "I didn't marry you because you were perfect... I married you because you gave me a promise."
  
  She then takes off her ring and looks at it, saying, "That promise made up for your faults and the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married, and it was the promise that made the marriage."
  
  In every marriage, no matter how well the two people know one another, great mysteries remain! Very often, each person comes to the marriage
  - not fully knowing himself or herself,
  - not fully knowing about life, and
  - not fully knowing about his or her spouse.
  
  What is unknown is far greater than what is known! Becoming a faithful, loving spouse not only takes courage and faith, but patience and a desire to keep learning and growing. Better than the question, "What kind of spouse do I desire to have? is the question, "What kind of spouse do I aspire to be?"

  ---from South Pacific SDA Website----
  
  

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