Since I sent you some Tolkein yesterday, I thought I'd keep going with that theme today. A colleague shared this quote last week in our faculty seminar that Tolkein wrote to his son about marriage.
“When the glamour wears off, or merely works a bit thin, they think they have made a mistake, and that the real soul-mate is still to find. . . And of course they are as a rule quite right: they did make a mistake. Only a very wise man at the end of his life could make a sound judgment concerning whom, amongst the total chances, he ought most profitably to have married! Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might have found more suitable mates. But the 'real soul-mate' is the one you are actually married to.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
May you all keep choosing to love one another over and over again. I think for Lent that Jason and I are going to try to add in our hugs and kisses each day... how easy it is to get out of practice and to neglect these things when life gets busy. Let us know if you care to join us for the next 40 days...
XOXO
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