"Ultimately, there comes a moment when a decision must be made.
Ultimately, two people who love each other must ask themselves
how much they hope for as their love grows and deepens, and how
much risk they are willing to take. It is indeed a fearful gamble.
Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something
which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature.
"To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take.
If we commit ourselves to one person for life this is not, as many people
think, a rejection of freedom; rather it demands the courage to move
into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent;
into that love which is not possession, but participation. It takes a lifetime
to learn another person. When love is not possession, but participation,
then it is part of that co-creation which is our human calling, and
which implies such risk that it is often rejected."
~ Madeleine L'Engle, The Irrational Season"
Let's not reject it.
Take the risk, my love.
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