The funny thing about searching for your bashert (your destined soul-mate), is that even when you find your bashert, you have only partly completed the task.  For it is in helping our children through our sacred unions that they find their bashert, and finish the task which we started - to realize our own true destiny.  In this mirroring dance of fates between our destiny and that of our children do we find our completion and our hope for the future.  This couldn't be more true as we look into this week's parasha and see Avraham bury his beloved Sarah - his bashert - and at the same time move on to helping his son, Yitzchak, find his own destiny and carry on the promises given to Avraham and his progeny for all time.