Some of you need to take this lesson and apply it to jobs, others to places, and others to state of life: Remember all in this world is passing away and is not what it seems on the outside, seek the interior life.
In order to ensure oneself of a good wife and a blessed married life and everything that is appropriate to that state in life, we must ensure that we do not conform to this age of thinking that the looks of something equal them to be good by definition or good for us. Let us not "judge a book by its cover", nor even by its Introduction or first couple pages. Let us pray for the Purity of heart, mind and intention to see our sisters and potential receivers of our self-gift of love and life sacrifice for who they truly are on the inside, to be so pure as to be attrachted to the Spirit of a woman and not only her outward beauty. For it is natural at this stage in our lives to be lured by our passions and thoughts of outward beauty being a lasting thing, but alas we know because we are not idiots that it will quickly pass away. This being known to us, we must seek to be holy and open to the promptings of the Spirit towards the Inner life of a certain sister, even if we had formerly cast judgements upon her or "who she is", let us be open only to the movement of the Spirit, so that when the time is proper we may act accordingly. This being said, let not this message bring you to thinking you are ready for marriage when you are not, but also let it not scare you out of taking a leap of love and faith if it is time for you to begin to do that. God gives all gifts in due season let us not be like children and seek to find them before the proper time or to tear their wrappings just a corner as to ruin the suprise, nor let them sit and be unused as someone who knows not what a good gift looks like.
As always, be not afriad and lay down you lives for you friends.
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