Faith. This is no Christian whimsy, the proper, holy, and expected thing to say. This is a critical necessity, that we have faith in the God who loves the both of us, who encourages such a relationship as marriage, and who is above time. It is only in God that we do touch the future after all, even if we cannot know it, for God embraces in his own knowing the present and the future together: he who is here with us now, as we begin the relationship, is also, now, at every anniversary of that relationship until we die.
