Biblical Resources for Everyday Life
Intimate, yet different. Drawn to each other, yet sometimes wary of our contact. The person-to-person oneness called marriage adds both intrigue and complexity to our lives. How do we cope with the challenges such closeness brings? And how do we experience that oneness if children are given to us? I hope the following perspectives will help. They’re gleaned from many years of wrestling to coordinate God’s understanding of marriage and parenting with my own.
When we wives use “weapon-words” to get our husbands to shape-up, they typically back off. So what does impact our husband’s hearts?
Is God hopelessly outdated when He says “the husband is head of the wife”? Or is biblical headship God’s up-to-date gift?
We’re entering the last portion of our earthly togetherness, my husband and I. Perhaps we’ll have a decade or two more here with each other… but perhaps not. As awareness of our mortality draws nearer, we’re surprised by the sweetness of its presence. It’s taken us years and years to learn, but now? Now we’re tasting the ripe fruit of learning to love.
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