I am exhausted after teaching the Emmanuel House marriage and family course with Precious this weekend. Exhausted, but reflective. Each year I teach the course I highlight something new in thinking about marriage. This time around I thought about how profound is my wife’s commitment to my perseverance, and the connection of that historically troubling notion of submission (essentially being the high commitment to her husband’s perseverance, doing whatever it takes, even refusing to follow his sinful directions) to the proper marital aim of desiring that our wife or husband be presented to Christ one day, and in that presentation that he or she would receive the “well done.” It occurred to me that it would almost be enough to hear her receive the well done, and that it would be as (no, more) wonderful as if I did myself. I wonder if this is what Oneness is all about?
I marvel at her love for me. Why me?
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