soulmates aren't real

soul mate isn’t just someone we love. As for our grandparents, there are probably lots of people out there whom we could settle down with and, in the fullness of time, grow to love. But we want more than love. We want a lifelong wingman/wingwoman who completes us and can handle the truth, to mix metaphors from three different Tom Cruise movies.

we trot about looking for “the one”: that starry-eyed soul-mate spouse who will complete us. How foolish! The only “one” who can complete us is Jesus Christ,

Two people who love each other should never feel called to explain to an outside party why they love each other, or why it is that they belong together. The place where they belong is a secret place. Their souls know why they are together; and they should trust that togetherness.

We keep imagining that we haven’t met ‘the right person’; we overlook that we might have the wrong picture of love.

A relationship is not meant to be the joining at the hip of two emotional invalids. The purpose of a relationship is not for two incomplete people to become one, but rather for two complete people to join together for the greater glory of God.