Article September 1, 2013

Looking for a husband or a wife?

Katherine Jane Hildreth

Originally published in the 1978 pamphlet titled “Commitment to Marriage”

You can stop looking.

Looking for something implies that you've lost it. Or never had it. In either case, that you lack it. But man, God's perfect, whole idea, lacks nothing. He reﬂects all good. So as God's idea, man, you are complete—now.

Marriage is not a blissful state of existence that some people are lucky enough to ﬁnd and others perpetually yearn for. It's a human institution, a partnership, a legal contract, a foundation for sharing every aspect of this human adventure.

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