thoughts from a guide

http://www.boundless.org/girls/pages/GirlsGuide.pdf

Mostly I'm putting this here because I wanted to think about them more, but hopefully they'll encourage you all too.

NOBODY REALLY
“SETTLES ” IN A BIBLICAL
MARRIAGE BECAUSE
GOD HAS DESIGNED
MARRIAGE AS A
WONDERFUL GIFT
THAT GETS BETTER
WITH AGE . pg 54

"Marriage is a school of character. Clement of Alexandria, an early church father (ca. 150-215), captures this thinking marvelously when he writes, 'The prize in the contest of men is shown by him who has trained himself by the discharge of the duties of marriage; by him, I say, who in the midst of his solicitude for his family shows himself inseparable from the love of God.' Clement asks, who wins the prize? Not the couple displaying the most emotion, with the biggest smiles on their faces, or who can’t keep their hands off each other; but rather, those who, through the duties and sacrifice of marriage, have trained themselves to love with God’s love."

Gary Thomas pages 50,51

and what kind of man should I be looking for???

Isaiah 32:1-4
Behold, a king will reign in righteousness,
and princes will rule in justice.
Each will be like a hiding place from the wind,
a shelter from the storm,
like streams of water in a dry place,
like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.
Then the eyes of those who see will not be closed,
and the ears of those who hear will give attention.
The heart of the hasty will understand and know,
and the tongue of the stammerers will hasten to speak distinctly.