Incomplete Yet Whole

It's important to understand that it is not good for a man or a woman to be alone. Neither are they complete in and of themselves. She needs more than herself, he and God alone is not good. Man needs woman and woman needs man. We are each incomplete alone.

However, it must also be stated that an incomplete man and an incomplete woman together are not complete. To understand this i will use 2 analogies. First, what most people who are single think is that when they meet the right person it will be like 2 pieces of the same puzzle put together. They will connect together, and they will be complete. The puzzle will be done. It's a nice concept. It's fun. It's romantic. It's a concept that seems to pervade today's young marriages, and if kept will destroy those marriages.

Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, the reality is that when God separated man and woman He did not just leave them wholly incomplete. He made them each whole. God took from man, sealed him back up, and make him a whole being in and of himself. God took the rib / side / beam / part of man and formed woman from that. God made her whole as well. So now one whole and complete being (that needed more than just himself & God) is two whole incomplete beings that need each other (& God).

I stated earlier that i had 2 analogies. Well the second analogy that i had i realized didn't work. However, i did find this picture which fills in another analogy that i was considering. When a piece of glass (or in this case a mirror) is broken there is no way to make it complete again. The broken pieces are whole in and of themselves and in theory if you put them back together would make a complete mirror, however the reality is that no matter how perfectly the pieces of a broken mirror are fit back together, they will never be complete again. It works the same way with a man and a woman. Neither are complete in and of themselves. They need each other to be complete, but even by putting them together it doesn't make them perfectly complete.
Well, the analogy is still not all that great, but i think it gets the point across. Hope this helps.

Image from J. C. Rojas used under cc license.