Beginning Together – Sunday, June 06, 1954
We have come again upon the month of June—a month of many marriages, a month in which many young people are beginning life together. And in their beginning together, there may be many things they need and want, and working and waiting and going without aren’t always easy.
Often, they come from provident homes. Some have lived in comparative luxury. And a girl who comes from a provident home could make life uncomfortable for the young man she marries if she were to expect him immediately to provide all that her parents have provided after long years of working arid waiting.
Few people start with “everything” at once. And those who do miss much of the genuine joy of working and planning together. Of course, we expect each generation to improve upon the past, and fortunately it may not be necessary to go all the way back and begin where our parents began.
But neither is it expected that young people should equal at once the pattern set by provident parents. And neither parent—nor anyone else—should encourage the idea that young people should be able to begin where others have arrived only after long effort, there is a special kind of happiness that can come with working and planning and pursuing common purposes in an understanding companionship.
It isn’t always easy, but it brings people closer and a love that is solid enough to begin on a sound basis, has in it the promise of growing and maturing and becoming ever more meaningful over the years. This surely should be said: One sure way to weaken the foundations of a family, one sure way to multiply misunderstandings, is to live in a manner that is beyond our means.
God grant that those who begin life together may be blessed with the wisdom of a sound sense of values—that they may be blessed with the unsurpassed happiness and all-important purpose of having and rearing a family—and may begin solidly, in a rich and understanding companionship, with a realistic awareness of a worthwhile ultimate objective—and not hazard the future by tying themselves too tightly to too many inessentials. *
*Revised.
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June 06, 1954
Broadcast Number 1,294