The Sacredness of Marriage Marriage "joins" - it is a "welding together" - a single man and a single woman in a way that is too personal and too permanent for a mere contract to accomplish. Only a sacred covenant can create this awesome "joining." Thus do these two single souls "die" into their new life, their new "union with one another as a soul 'dies' into its union with God." But from this dying, as through a resurrection, a new sense of joined souls comes forth in the fruit and the freedom of new family life, posterity, and spiritual development. - by Elder Bruce C. Hafen [source unknown] Home / For Latter-day Saints