Continuing the topic of Love and Marriage, here's an excellent post by Cypren that expresses much of the frustration that I experience myself.
Update:
Via Megan at Page Three (who flatters some of my recent posts, although I am not a five-point Calvinist), here is a very long article about marriage by Mike McNichols that explores in plodding detail the legalistic way that many Christians look at marriage. Our society leads us to give a great deal of weight to a piece of paper issued by the state that says "you're married", but in reality that's not the point. Getting married doesn't require a ceremony or government recognition, and in fact a great many people are functionally married and probably don't even realize it (such as Ed Weathers from my previous essay).
