After a wedding

We are back from Nashville where we attended the wedding of Matt and Meredith's friends, Aaron and Deborah. Matt was a groomsmen in the wedding and Aaron will be a groomsman in Matt's wedding. It was interesting to see how Buck did the service. It made me wonder what Meredith's and Matt's service will be like.

Buck did a good job of explaining how marriage is a metaphor of the Christian life. He used the passage from Ephesians 5. It made me think about that passage again. I used to kind of bristle at that passage. I think that was when I focused on ly on the submitting. The more I think about it, what I was bristling against I think was the way the passage has been used by some men to repress women and treat them as objects. When I think about our marriage I think I have submitted to Thomas. It has not been hard to do that because how much Thomas loves me. I know that he would never ask me to do anything or even do anything that he thought would hurt me, for he loves me so much. I know he loves me and is so unselfish. I guess there have been times when I have been selfish and thought of my self first, but I think that most of the time I have submitted to him not because he makes me or I have to but because I know he loves me and wants what is best for me. Maybe, after all this time, I am really beginning how beautiful this passage really is. It also makes me so very grateful for Thomas who has done what this passage tells husbands to do for so mant