A Prayer to Remember

Monday Devotional

“Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children and walk the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.”  Ephesians 5:1-2

When I come into town for “Sacred Marriage” seminars, I often get taken out to dinner beforehand.  The organizers sometimes invite an engaged couple to join us.  I always like this, particularly if I feel tired from traveling, because I know I can ask one question of the engaged woman that will reward me with a good rest.  I know this because she will likely take at least ten minutes to answer.  The questions is this:

“Tell me about your future husband.”

The bride-to-be’s eyes light up, and she starts to gush with enthusiastic and unqualified praise: “Oh, I so appreciate this about him, and he’s so good at that, and he’s so wonderfully thoughtful in this area, and in that area he’s absolutely the best…”

Then, later in the weekend, I’ll be with a group of wives and say, “Tell me about your husbands.”  I still get a rest, but I don’t find it nearly as pleasant.  The chorus goes like this: “He doesn’t do this.  He never does that.  He wouldn’t know how to spell ‘spiritual leader,’ much less act like one.”