“Are you ok my love, how can I help you?” These words are frequently said to me, from my husband. He knows that there are times where due to some health conditions, I need him more than I’d like to. He’s my helper and I’m so grateful for him. He could be unbelievably tired and still offer all he could to help me. I don’t take his gentle and loving acts for granted. I know it is a blessing to be loved the way that he loves me. I can only hope to reciprocate that same love. He deserves it.

I have often heard the way that spouses talk poorly of their significant other. My husband and I are not perfect, but the last thing ever on my agenda or his, is to slander each other. We live in a world that has a tendency to make a mockery of marriage, commitment and true partnership. Social media makes ‘jokes’ about marriage, movies condone flighty and loose relationships. When times are hard there are those that think infidelity is then acceptable. I could continue on with the way the world treats marriage. Although I know marriage is a blessing from God and it is sacred. I’m not saying to stay with someone who is unfaithful or abusive. What I am saying is outside of those situations, we need to spend more time cherishing our spouse and taking the sanctity of marriage serious. Friend, if we are given the blessing of marriage from God, may we treat it as such.

Erin Fitts-Brower 

Matthew 19:4-6

Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

Ephesians 5:22-29 NIV Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 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. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church—