Grass-roots Ecumenism (I)

Abstract

"When I was single I often heard about the joys of married life- indeed I witnessed something of that joy among my friends and relations. I sometimes read articles or books which realistically put over the delights and difficulties experienced by two people uniting, becoming one and promising to work out their relationship with God's help. What books could not do nor long married friends really convey to me was the feeling of wholeness and the complete happiness which I experienced myself when I met my partner and we pledged ourselves to live together under God's guidance. Of course married life does not always run smoothly. Two people have different ideas and opinions, they have different gifts to contribute to the building of a home which might not at first seem to complement each other. But it is the working out, the deciding where priorities lie, the giving and the taking on both sides which makes marriage such fun, such an adventure. The results are not compromise but completeness. I have been married for almost nineteen years and have experienced all these things. We have a partnership which is working itself out in new and exciting ways all the time"