SisEmbree #comm150WhatIfPt1: WhatIf U could have the perfect love but @ the end of 1 year ur partner would die.Would U still pursue the relationship?
In all honesty, I have thoroughly considered this possibility several times as I have come to think about my future wife. I think about how I would meet her and when it would be ever since I was in my mid-teenage years. I've never been in a relationship and that fact, in part, has lead me to think of my future wife all too often.
Elder Neal A. Maxwell said, "Perfect love is perfectly patient." I have come to try to live that way as I wait to meet or get to know my future wife. I get impatient all too often when it comes to looking forward to getting to know her or who she is sometimes and when I learned this truth, it gave comfort to know she is out there somewhere and even though I've waited very little time that feels too long for me, I have thought of the possibility of finally getting to know her and who she is and then having her taken from me, as Abraham thought it would be with Isaac, knowing how much Heavenly Father knows I want this and testing me to see if I love Him more than what I want most in life.
To answer the question if I would pursue perfect love if she were to die in a year, the answer is most definitely yes. Upon both of our knowing who the other is to each other, I would do everything to arrange our sealing to be together forever. After all, if it were perfect love, why not look forward to this greater chance at perfection for all eternity knowing
what I know through the blessings and covenants promised to us through the gospel? I know them to be true and I trust in them.
what I know through the blessings and covenants promised to us through the gospel? I know them to be true and I trust in them.Now if I were to remarry after this year, I wouldn't know. I can't say right now. I don't know life in love and I don't know how to imagine life after such a thing. I wouldn't turn down the possibility altogether, but I think it would take some time and prayerful consideration and small healing, of course, but I'm not sure if I would or not. I think I would consult with my perfect love before I made such a decision. Such a decision to make on my own, after all would be a bit foolish without the influence of not only my perfect love, but He who perfectly loves me as well.
What? Guys actually think about this stuff too? ;-) (hee hee). Great post Erick.
ReplyDeleteNo, the guys I've talked to hardly EVER think let alone talk about this stuff, so I'm one of the rare ones. I disagree with more than half of the stereotypes of what males usually do according to most of these communication things we've learned in class. When I say disagree though, I mean towards me. I feel I don't do most of the stuff I always see guys doing or behaving, so I'm a rare acception.
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