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students. Henceforth, I decided not to pay any attention to anyfemale classmate. Nothwithstanding, this was not the absolutereason why I could not find a partner in school. For, as “everygood match is made in heaven”, at the back of all this was God’shigher will (Ps. 39:9).After this somebody introduced me to one Miss Wong.Although we had not met, we began to correspond. In ourcorrespondence I purposely showed off my stubbornness to sparkup her reaction in order that I might know her true self. Havingcome to understand each other thereby, we arranged a meeting tosee each other. Our engagement was effected in a semi-modern orsemi-old fashion. Nevertheless, God had bound us together by acrimson string, as the saying goes, “A marriage between two athousand li (Chinese mile = one-third of an English mile) apart ismade by that crimson string binding their feet.”Some people say, “Marital love is blind”; or as another sayinggoes, “There is a Hsi-Shih in every lover’s eye” (Hsi Shih was afamous beauty in Chinese history). But, I can say that when Ipicked my life-partner, I was quite awake. I knew that the spouse Ichose was no perfect being, as I am myself. For, there is noperfect spouse in the world. Since we cannot demand theimpossible in the world of a perfect spouse the important thingtherefore is “a deep mutual understanding.” It is said, “Two canlive together if they understand each other’s character.” Now, ifwe can give and take one another’s weaknesses and let love fill upthe gap, then we have a happy marriage. Yes, a happy marriage isfounded on this, as Proverbs 10:12 says, “Love covereth all sins.”But a marriage is not built simply on a right perception at thetime of courtship. Such an attitude needs to be continuouslysubstantiated. Thus can that unfortunate situation, “Marriage isthe graveyard of courting love”, be prevented. Thanks be to God,although our marriage has not attained to that “fulness of beauty”,we can say we have found satisfaction in each other. In the last44