Dear friends, Sebastian quoted:
Imagine you found a beautiful girl. You liked her and want to get married with her. You passed this message to her, and she also agreed it. Then you prayed to the Lord, _Lord help me to get married with her_. But the Lord says, my dear son, I have already selected somebody else for you, so please forget her. If God says you can carry on , then what is the problem? The important part is our attitude. If Christ is our central person and we ready to accept His will. That is the important factor. We are talking about love marriage and arranged marriage. 90% of the arranged marriages we are giving priority to colour, beauty, financial back ground, family status, dowry etc. rather than Gods wish. We can call it Sin? Married life, Priesthood any occasion we need preparation. For priesthood they are spending more than 10 years. If a boy and girl build up their relation in a matured manner, healthy in every respect looking for marital status I feel it is OK. We shared the cases, which is not fulfilling. If a nun or priest come out of their orientation time without their mistakes, is it Sin? Same way we can think about a good affair become failure You are not getting attracted with everyone. You are not thinking about an affair with all the attracted persons. I remember Fr. Paul Thelakkats one class. It was a youth programme. He commented about the specialty of man. The capacity to take decision. Only humanbeing (he/she) can say I should marry this boy or girlFor animals they dont have Yes/ No attitude. So this is Gods special gift for the human being. If we can take decisions for the Glory of God who will come against us? St. Paul says: If God is for us, who can be against us? ( Romans 8:31) Another point. What is love? Love sanctifies and leads to salvation. The relation which sanctifies both of you and leads to the deepens of salvation then it is great. We have to proclaim this essence of love to the world. We have to convey this message to our youth. Then others can realize what is true love affair. We started our discussion with Valentine Day. We commented about commercialization. Before blaming the world admit our mistakes. We ( Church) are always behind the world in all areas. Just think about our festivals, pilgrim centers? Within the circle we can find out lot of failures When we will come on driver seat as the light of the world? Prayers & love Jose Kuriakose Bahrain NB: I agree with most of the mails which give insights to be holy. =============================================================================== This mail is generated from JOYnet, a Jesus Youth mailing list. For more info on the list visit http://www.jesusyouth.org/joynet To unsubscribe from the list send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the list visit http://www.jesusyouth.org/joynet/join In case of any issue related to the mailing list contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===============================================================================