Vocation in the Valley

My Brother is Married!

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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One Response to “My Brother is Married!”

1. Lisa Says:

   July 23rd, 2008 at 10:54 pm

   I am not sure how this works, I was just trying to contact Brian Yamabe. My name is Lisa Yamabe-Jamison and I stumbled upon this site. I noticed Brian and I share the same last name. I am curious if we are related somehow, since Yamabe isn’t a very common last name (Not where I live, anyway). I looked all over this page for a link to send an email to Brian. I don’t know if I missed it or if there isn’t one. So, I thought I would write a message here in hopes that someone would assist me in accomplishing my task.