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Someone asks, "What about the statement that there are no marriages in heaven?"

All true marriages are made here by the processes of experience. We come by growth into true and perfect marriage. Two people may meet here and love each other and be married, and yet it may take years of living together to come into the closer interior union that makes the highest ideal of marriage.

But they may never meet here. Yet they have been fitted by life itself for one another and find themselves hereafter so adapted to one another as to realize a perfect union. The marriage, as far as adaptation is concerned, is always made here. I am not responsible for this idea. It came from Swedenborg. Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning embodied it in some very beautiful poetry.

Thus all marriages are made on earth, though all are not realized here. Do you believe it?