It's official, I'm changing my dating views from just having fun, to getting serious and finding someone to settle down with. I don't know if it's because I'm here at school and marriage is everywhere, that I'm realizing all my friends are either married or having babies, or if I'm just growing up and becoming more mature along the way. Whatever the cause, I'm finally ready to admit to myself that yes, I'm at BYU-Idaho to find a husband.
This doesn't mean I'm going to marry the first guy that comes along, don't get me wrong. Marriage isn't necessarily my primary goal of being here, I'm getting a quality education. I love my classes this semester, things are going really really well.
I'm excited for what the future holds. I'ma get my marriage on.
Showing posts with label temple marriage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label temple marriage. Show all posts
Friday, November 18, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
My heart aches
You know what makes me so sad? When I see good friends of mine settle for guys who can't take them to them temple. Girls that I love and cherish and I know have a testimony but yet they fall in love with the wrong guy and decide that "Maybe someday" is good enough for them.
One of my very dear friends left school, got pregnant with her first boyfriend (non-member, several years older than her), and is now married to him. She commented on a picture of a temple that if they ever get sealed, she wants it to be in that particular temple. I think my heart broke open and poured out to her. How sad is that? I hope that "If we ever get sealed" isn't something I ever utter about my husband. The things that happen in the temple are so sacred and so vital, I can't imagine giving that up. My heart just aches and aches for my dear friend. She won't receive the blessing of the temple, she won't inherit eternal life or have eternal increase with her husband, whom she loves. That BREAKS MY HEART.
All while I was growing up my mother always told me, "Date within the church. Don't date non-members. Want to know why, Leslie? Because you never know who you're going to fall in love with." I almost got engaged to a guy who was inactive but was telling me he was reading the scriptures and going to church. He was really out drinking and getting tattoos (it was a long distance thing...) It's a scary thing, love. You really don't know who you're going to fall in love with, so dating members who have a testimony and can go to the temple with you is the insurance that you will end up with an eternal marriage.
I feel so sad for those couples who, for whatever reason, miss out on eternal life with their spouse. Because really, who wants a 'til death do you part' marriage when you can have a 'for time and all eternity' marriage sealed by the power of the priesthood?
I won't settle.
One of my very dear friends left school, got pregnant with her first boyfriend (non-member, several years older than her), and is now married to him. She commented on a picture of a temple that if they ever get sealed, she wants it to be in that particular temple. I think my heart broke open and poured out to her. How sad is that? I hope that "If we ever get sealed" isn't something I ever utter about my husband. The things that happen in the temple are so sacred and so vital, I can't imagine giving that up. My heart just aches and aches for my dear friend. She won't receive the blessing of the temple, she won't inherit eternal life or have eternal increase with her husband, whom she loves. That BREAKS MY HEART.
All while I was growing up my mother always told me, "Date within the church. Don't date non-members. Want to know why, Leslie? Because you never know who you're going to fall in love with." I almost got engaged to a guy who was inactive but was telling me he was reading the scriptures and going to church. He was really out drinking and getting tattoos (it was a long distance thing...) It's a scary thing, love. You really don't know who you're going to fall in love with, so dating members who have a testimony and can go to the temple with you is the insurance that you will end up with an eternal marriage.
I feel so sad for those couples who, for whatever reason, miss out on eternal life with their spouse. Because really, who wants a 'til death do you part' marriage when you can have a 'for time and all eternity' marriage sealed by the power of the priesthood?
I won't settle.
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