the vow to risk

"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.