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What is love? What is marriage?
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 • 10:19 PM • 0 comments A child asked a wise man, "What is love?"The wise man replied, "in order to answer your question, go to the wheat field and choose the biggest wheat and come back. However you can go through it only once and you cannot turn back to pick." The child went to the field, going through the first row, he saw one big wheat, but he wondered whether there may be a bigger one later. Then he saw another bigger one and wonder if there may be an even bigger one waiting for him. Later, when he finished more than half of the wheat field, he started to realise that the wheat is not as big as the previous one he saw, he knew he had missed the biggest one, and he had regretted it. So, he returned to the wise man empty-handed. The wise man told him, "my child, this is love. You kept looking for a better one, but when you realise that every one you meet is no longer better, you have already missed the one." "What is marriage then?" the child asked. The wise man said, "in order to answer your question, go to the corn field and choose the biggest corn and come back. The same rule applies - you can go through it only once and you cannot turn back to pick." The child went to the corn field and this time he was careful not to repeat his mistake. When he reached the middle of the field, he picked a medium-sized corn which he felt would satisfy the criteria and came back to the wise man. The wise man told him, "this time you brought back a corn and you looked for one that is just nice. You had faith and believed that this is the best one you get. So child, this is marriage." Some of us are fortunate to have met someone we loved and knew he was the one. Most of us stumbled in the game of love and suffered a few heart aches before we decided on someone who feels right. Yet, there are those who fell in love, fell out of love and never found someone to settle with. Whom am I right for, the one would love me for me? I may not be perfect but I am ready to be found and to love. God, let me be found and treasured. Labels: 2013, life, love, marriage |
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