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“I do.”
Those two words provoke a universal image – a man and a woman, together, surrounded by their closest friends and family, pledging to love honor one another, through good times and bad, in sickness and in health, for as long as they both shall live.
What follows next is the culmination of a litany of sacrificial obligations central to marriage, and represents one of the biggest leaps of faith many of us will experience in our lifetime.
“I do.”
Look around.
We live in an intricately interconnected and complementary world, with remarkable complexity and startling beauty. Consider the small – the simplicity of a cell or an atom, and how they form the building blocks for all that we see and touch. Think about how cells form seeds, and how such a small package can unfurl into something as strong and majestic as a tree, or as delicate as a flower.
Think about the complexity of a human organ, like the eye, and how many of these improbably complicated organs are packaged together into the human person, performing like a symphony to support and sustain every human life.
Now consider the probability of this all happening by chance. Science has shown the odds are overwhelmingly against it – in fact, it is nearly impossible. It would be like thinking that the Mona Lisa was created by paint randomly falling onto a canvas, after the paint spontaneously burst into being.
