Marriage.

Well on my way to class today, I was about to eat my breakfast in the car- trail mix, when I was sitting at a red light. But there was a guy on the corner with a sign that read "FOOD OR BLANKET" I try to help out when I can...my heart is always touched by these guys. So I rolled down my window and asked if he liked trail mix; he did and accepted it gratefully. Then he asks me if I knew what the number one problem why there's so much divorce these days was. I said because of the lack of communication. He says yeahhh but MARRIAGE is the number one cause..and that he's been alive 46 years and never got married. Now I don't agree with that, he was trying to joke with it..but I have a lot to say about marriage.

People get married without really knowing the person they're getting married to. They do it because they of what they "feel" and not what IS. Some people marry for money, some because they think that love=sex or sex=love, some because they're scared they'll never find anyone better, some because of pressure, some because of kids, and I'm sure there are many more reasons.

But most people don't understand that getting married is a commitment to another person, for BETTER OR WORSE. You're not gunna be happy all the time, people have their days. There will never be a person that you will NEVER have a problem with, especially if you're gunna live with them for the rest of your life. There are things that you gotta figure out and deal with before AND during your marriage. It's simply a never-ending process of discovering each other and helping each become the best they can be. For Christians also, helping your spouse get closer to God.

I wish that people would think about marriage more and respect it and see the awesome beauty of a truly good marriage.

There are those people too who see marriage as a trap or a cage. But you know, it's really freeing. If you marry the right person, you shouldn't have to worry about affairs or losing them to another. You don't have to be afraid to be alone. You don't have to have the pressure of trying to please multiple people, you just gotta please ONE. Your heart is with your spouse forever. Shouldn't have a need to worry about it breaking.

Now my brain is jumping everywhere so I'm gunna stop writing before I talk in circles and don't make any sense if I haven't already done that.