Greenlights

by Matthew McConaughey

ourselves, we become more of ourselves. Through this covenant with God and our spouse we actually triple our existence and become three times what we were. Three entities: wife, husband, and God, in unification, unanimous. 1 x 1 = 3. A mystical multiplication. “It takes courage and sacrifice,” he said. Then he challenged me. “What’s the bigger risk for you, Matthew? Going on this adventure or continuing the one you’re on?” The dare. It got me thinking. I spent the next few weeks talking to my pastor, my brother, and successfully married men about it. Soon, for the first time in my life, I got the courage to look at marriage not as a final destination, rather as a new expedition, an affirmative and heartfelt choice to become more, together, with the woman I wanted to spend the rest of my life with, and the only mother I wanted to be rocking with on my eighty-eighth birthday. For the first time, I began seeing marriage as more than only a biblical and legislative sanction that I was supposed to feel responsible for enacting. Marrying Camila became something I needed to do. I bent my knee and proposed to her on Jesus’s birthday, 2011. She said yes.