Words of Wisdom from the Gray-headed Lady

My Grandmama T has always had gray hair. She started graying at 14 years old. It's hereditary as well, incase you've seen them mixed in with the dull brown of my hair. As you all know, she's staying with us for a while. Yesterday, we were talking about our congregation and how there are so many brothers and sisters in our congregations on their second marriages- as in both husband and wife. All but one native elder on our body is on his first marriage and his wife is too. (We've had families like ours where my mom and dad have never been married to anyone else move in, but I'm talking these brothers have been here twenty years and have only served in West.) The thing is most of the time, their first husband/wife is still in the truth some where. Crazy. So we're telling my Grandmama and she said she remembered years ago (she said it had to have been about thirty) when she went to a convention and in the marriage talk, it was greatly stressed to make sure that you were in love with the person you were to marry. She didn't quite understand why they would stress that so much and was talking about that on the ride home with the family that she and my mom had carpooled with. The other young brother in the car with them (she said he's probably in his fifties now) said that there were so few witnesses that people were marrying just because they were marrying in the lord and they thought that it would be alright anyway. Then a few years down the line, it would hit the couple that they didn't really love each other. My ignorant little 18 year-old self says, "They should've made it work though." Grandmama said, "Yes, I do agree with that, but there is a strong difference in between loving someone and being in love with someone. Remember that."

And I will. It explained so much of things, in general. I just wanted to share the wisdom.