Today is an anniversary of sorts for Gail and I. We went on our first date in 1988. I can tell you where we went, it was to the Ground Round in Newburgh, NY. We had dinner, what else would you do at a Ground Round? We then went back to my apartment. This wasn't an official date, I was thanking her for being willing to watch my apartment while I was on the road recruiting for Mt. Saint Mary College at which she was a student.
I was supposed to go down to NJ that night, but instead hung out at my apartment and she and I watched the Bush-Dukakis debates, yes I'm quite the romantic. Little did I know that young woman would eventually become the person I'd spend the rest of my life with.
This past Sunday we read a passage from the Book of Proverbs in which the opening sentence was "a capable wife, who can find?" I thought that was a strange way of phrasing what we should be looking for in a life time partner, capability. I'm not even sure what a "capable" wife, or for that matter husband would be. Are there specific tasks involved?
I know that a marriage, much like any partnership should be one where the partner brings out the best in the other. This is true in business as well as households. Do the two people's strengths compliment each other?
I preached on that proverb last week. Thought it was worth contemplating. Not only about celebrating wives, and my wife in particular, but also any covenant relationship. I reminded the congregation that we see marriage as a pointing to the union between Christ and his Church, and so I asked what makes a capable church?
When you look at the primary relationships, whether marital, business, familial or friendship, what has made them work? What did you look for in those partnerships? What did you bring to the relationship? And in those times when it didn't work out, what was missing?
Blessings,
Ed
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