text: Married life provides the "raw material" for us to become more than we used to be.
  
  It helps us to become saints, perfecting our patience, our industry, our generosity.
  
  Married life is like one long obstacle course designed to make us look and act like Jesus Christ,
  
  Marriage was designed by God for "kenosis"...self empting.
  
  So that's why the Church recommends it.  
  
  There's no faster or better way to become a saint than to become married and to cooperate in God's creative action. 
  
  We become saints in and through the zillion tasks of married life.
  
  If we let it, if we draw daily streangth from God, in prayer, through the frequent and well-disposed reception of the Sacarments. 
  
  It's like "BUDS" for Navy SEALS.  
  
  Marrriage - well and heroically lived - will make us saints. 
  
  But if we hold on, if we don't trust God, if we make up our own moral law, if we draw lines in the sand, etc...marriage will just make us bitter and little. 
  
  Marriage is an endless source of growth.