Sunday, July 6th, 2008
Just got back from my brother’s wedding. Congratulations again Jenn and Kev. I was the best man, so I thought I’d post my toast:
I want to dispel some rumors. First, I did not drop Kevin on his head when he was a baby. HE, rolled off the changing table. And yes, I was involved in him getting the scar on the brige of his nose, but how was I to know that he would go “over” me when we were playing goal-line stand. Kev, my daughters thank you for letting me experiment on you. Jenn, my family would like to thank you for taking damaged goods.
Weddings remind me of one of my favorite Bible passages, no not the 1st Corinthians cliche. I’m talking about Ephesians 5:22. For all you non-Biblical scholars it goes “Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.” Good stuff, right? I mean every married man knows this works like a charm, right? Verses 23 - 24 continue “For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.” Paul would have made some marriage conselor.
But in all sincerity you have to continue to verse 25 which says, “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her…” See as husbands we are to sacrifice everything, even our lives, for our wives and if we are loving our wives to that extent then our wives should be submitting to us knowing we only act out of love for them. Of course we husbands never sacrifice everything even if we should and wives don’t always submit even when they should, but we have Christ who sacrificed everything on the Cross for us as a picture of what marriage should be.
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Escape from Cubicle Nation is a blog I read because it focuses on helping employees become entrepreneurs (my goal). It often becomes “new age” self-helpish. I guess that’s to be expected because when you start to from the perspective that you’re going to do it all yourself, positive thinking and things like “The Secret” are natural progressions.
Today I read a post entitled, Sick of feeling stuck? Focus on the greater good. It was fascinating to read that Dr. Srikumar Rao believes that “Your me-centered universe creates the stress in your life.” His antidote is for you to focus on the “greater good” in areas of struggle. For example if you struggle with loneliness, go out and find someone’s life to be a part of like a drug addicted baby or senior or at-risk youth. You can do it. You can get over the struggles in your life.
This is so close to the Doctrine of Vocation and yet so far. What happens if you keep struggling in the same area or if you don’t do what is prescribed? You either try to do even “greater good” or you beat yourself for not doing enough. Either way, you’re thrown back into the same despair you had before. What we learn from the Doctrine of Vocation is that first and foremost we are sinners that have been given salvation through the perfect life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Then, we are free to focus on the “great good” which may be as simple as changing a diaper or holding open a door. We don’t have to go looking for “greater good”, God presents it to us everyday, just by those we are surrounded by. Making dinner for the family, reading to the kids, kissing your wife good night, these are the “greater good.” Sure we’re still going to have our stresses and are struggles, but working for the greater good isn’t going to save us from them.
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