Thoughts on The Invitation - part 6

6. "I want to know if you can be faithful and therefore trustworthy. I want to know if you can see beauty, even when it is not pretty every day, and if you can source your life from its presence."

I have been waiting for this one. One of my pet peeves are men, and women, who are not faithful to their spouse. How many lives have to be ruined, or how many children have to the scarred before we wake up and realize how emparative it is to keep our friggin pants on! To give in to lust, just one time, can undo a lifetime of trust and hapiness. To throw it all away just to satisfy that one momentary need is ludicrous. How good could it have been? In less than 10 minutes you have single-handily brought so much pain and suffering to so many people - the wife or husband who has to live with the betrayal for the rest of their lives, the kids who will now grow up in a broken home and not know what marraige is supposed to look like. If you can't control your desires for the sake of your family, then you are not worthy of that family. Truth is, they are probably better off without you. Just my opinion.

OK, enough of that.

The second part about seeing beauty and sourcing your life off of it is deep as well. You know those old couples who have been married for like 70 years and still hold hands and never leave each other's side? They have it figured out. They do not see the wrinkles or the baldness or the fragility, they see beauty. They see a lifetime shared together. They have been through it all: the best of times, the worst of times, fallen "in love" and fallen "out of love", raised the kids the best they knew how, most of their friends have faided into a distant memory, but the one constant has been each other. It was not all a bed of roses, but they endured. They vowed to stick it out together no matter what. What greater joy could there be than to end the dance with the one who brought you? There is a special place in heaven for these kinds of people. God bless 'em!