It
is the most beautiful thing that can happen between two people in love.
A
marriage is more than just a husband and a wife. It is a bridge which
allows the love of two very special people to give meaning and worth
and wonder to life. It is a continual process of building; of shaping;
of communicating; and caring. It is the deepest and sweetest understanding.
It is sharing todays and tomorrows together and making each one more
treasured and more complete than anyone could make them alone. A marriage
is a home interwoven with hopes and memories and dreams. The thankfulness
and love it can bring have no comparison.
Being
happily married is the most beautiful thing that can happen . . . to
anyone.
Collin
McCarty in The Language of Marriage (Boulder, CO: Blue Mountain
Press, 1999)
Reflection
From time to time
it is good to remind ourselves about the beauty and wonder of marriage.
In the early moments of forming a relationship we begin to experience
what is spoken of here; in the magical moments of courting, in the moment
of the proposal we participated in the beauty of becoming complete.
And it was wonderful!
As we build the
marriage so many other things begin to overgrow this pristine and beautiful
mystery. The details of everyday--groceries, meals, house cleaning, home
repair, laundry, the demands of work, the demands of your spouse, your
children, your parents, your in-laws, your church, your civic organizations,
the news of the day, the market, and on and on--all these, choke out
the beauty, the wonder, the mystery that was present in the beginning.
So it is good,
from time to time, to remember that despite the thousand little things
that grab for your attention and try to steal the wonder of your finding
each other, choosing each other, promising your love to each other forever,
you are in the midst of the most beautiful thing that can happen . .
. to anyone.