While watching a TV talk-show one night, I heard a young singer-actress, when asked about her recent marriage, remark: "In our wedding vows we did not have the promise to 'love, honor, and cherish each other so long as we both shall live,' but to 'love, honor, and cherish each other so long as we both shall love!'" Continuing, she explained in a completely resigned voice, "Two married people really can't be expected to go on living together if they no longer love each other."
I found myself mentally protesting the implication that human affection in marriage cannot last.
"The attraction between native qualities will be perpetual only as it is pure and true, bringing sweet seasons of renewal like the returning spring." Science and Health, p. 57; These words of Mary Baker Eddy's are as appropriate for today's world as when she first wrote them.
