Madeleine L'Engle - Because it is the nature of love to create, a...

Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature. To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can takeIf we commit ourselves to one person for life this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession, but participationIt takes a lifetime to learn another personWhen love is not possession, but participation, then it is part of that co-creation which is our human calling, and which implies such risk that it is often rejected.