A Brief Comment on Marriage

I just finished rereading Louis L’Amour’s To the Far Blue Mountains, and I found this beautiful little comment on marriage: “It [marriage] is the ultimate test of maturity, and many find excuses for avoiding it because they are not up to the challenge, or capable of carrying on a mature relationship.” L’Amour’s comment on marriage is great. In a day in which marriage is viewed as antiquated and ridiculed and despised, it’s nice to be reminded that marriage is such a significant affair. All sins against the sixth commandment are easy and petty affairs, but marriage is truly the challenging and glorious thing. It, not countless petty relationships or notches on one’s belt, is the test of maturity. He, who marries and loves his wife as he has been given to do in the vocation of husband, shows himself to be truly mature.

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