| God communicates His loving presence to us through all of creation. Yet He shares Himself with us more perfectly through the gifts of human beings who love us and whom we are privileged to love. When two people marry, they submit themselves to live in a world of mystery. Marriage is a call to contemplation, a call to enter the mystical life.
In marital love, man and woman are gifted to love the other somewhat as God loves us, in a beautiful hope of what is yet unseen, but could be. The one loved has not yet experienced himself or herself as that good, noble, or beautiful person, yet in the eyes of the lover he or she is already that lovable, unique person.
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