Today on Gateway To Joy , Elizabeth Elliot talks about dealing with the realities of marriage. That's next on Gateway To Joy . I was talking about the necessity of a deep understanding of our calling as mothers, cooperators with God, shapers of destiny. We must also understand deeply and clearly what marriage is about. To fall in love is only a beginning stage and sometimes that doesn't happen at all, but you learn to love and you choose to love.
Love is a choice.
We must build something much greater than ourselves in building a home and a family, and in becoming a father and a mother. Our job takes more and more of sacrifice and self-giving, concern for the other, the intention of unity. No marriage will ever crack up if you go by these two simple, but not necessarily easy, rules. Number one is the intention of unity, and number two is concern for the good of the other person. Marriage takes sacrifice.