After marrying my college sweet-heart, I was sure that life with “my babe” would be easy. I would keep on doing what I was doing–and she would continue to do what she did, and we would be happy! Unfortunately, what neither of us expected was that life together…forever, is a much more difficult proposition!
What we quickly found was that we were different and the standards that we had for marriage were pretty much built around the paradigm established by our own families–who were also different. That meant that when she rejected my understanding of marriage–she was rejecting my family–and the same was true for me.
What we needed was someone–or something that was neutral on the expectations of marriage. We found that neutrality in the Word of God. And from that day on, the Word and the Lord are our final stop on all matters. Even better, the Word and the Lord are more often our first stop as well!
