A Young Adult’s Encounter with Ellen White ... on Relationships

Ever since I was 12 I have had the opposite gender on my mind, spending hours talking with my friends about who I was infatuated with at the moment. Until I started reading Ellen White, however, I did not fully realize what a high ideal God has for dating and marriage. I read Messages to Young People when a friend recommended it to me, and realized how inadequate was my view of a romantic relationship. A marriage and family class in high school required me to read Ellen White’s principles for relationships and cemented my desire to follow God’s plan for dating standards.AC 71.6

As a result, I am extremely thankful to God for the messages He gave Ellen White that have helped me make moral choices that bring peace, not regret.AC 71.7

Ellen White has especially influenced my relationships throughout college as I gave my future love life to God. I am now seriously dating the most wonderful man, and Letters to Young Lovers has been invaluable to me in evaluating our relationship. As Ellen White intimates, I can look back and see God choosing for me, and leading my boyfriend and me closer to Him and to each other. We have been encouraged greatly by Mrs. White’s suggestions, definitely finding in God a sure counselor, and in our parents wonderful confidants and advisors.AC 72.1

I am reading ideas in Ellen White’s books about what a woman should look for in a husband and the true love that God promises to weave in our hearts, and I am finding that God is fulfilling His Word more and more in my life. I praise God for speaking to me through Ellen White’s words of wisdom about relationships. I am finding exquisite joy in following where He leads.AC 72.2

Rahel, age 23AC 72.3