This week I have been thinking a lot about marriage and the difference between a civil marriage and a temple marriage as I have been trying to prepare more for my own marriage. All the time I was growing up I was taught that a temple marriage is the kind of marriage that you want, but I never really understood why. In all honesty, for a long time I thought it was the only place you could get married, but I also always saw marriage as a contract. As I was reading s talk by Elder Bruce C. Hafen of the seventy titled “Covenant Marriage” it really hit me how we can make our marriage into a contract or a covenant and what the difference really is. When someone sees a marriage as a contract, they see marriage as something that should make them happy, and if their spouse doesn’t keep their end of the contract to make them happy, then they can leave. When someone sees marriage as a covenant, however, they want to work on things together. When rough times arise, they work together to overcome them and draw closer to the Lord. He also said at one point in his talk that, “Contract companions each give 50 percent; covenant companions each give 100 percent.”
As I have moved out on my own and have started to really become my own person, I have come to realize just important a covenant temple marriage is to me. I have watched friends and family members that have gone into contract marriages and it has helped me realize even more how important a true covenant marriage is to me.
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