And just because
you love it will bring you acute pain. You would do well to ask
yourself beforehand what you are going to do about it. And if you
cannot feel that you could forgive and go on loving all the same, you
would do well to think again. The whole story of some unhappy marriages
is told in one sentence. There was love in them, but not enough to
produce forgiveness. Yet the ultimate proof that true love is divine in
origin lies just in the fact that true love _can_ forgive.
All of which leads me on to the real reason why I write this chapter.
Marriages often fail because people often fail, and people fail
ultimately for one central reason--that they have not God in their
lives. I have read as much modern fiction as most people. And while I
have plodded through elaborately told tales of the sufferings of
married people, my amazement has grown that these tales are almost
without exception the stories of people who had no conscious relation
to God. Their authors seem to think it a most interesting thing that
such lives should go wrong, and they base upon that fact the suggestion
that life is essentially a tragic and rather disappointing matter.
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