So I was listening to focus on the family today. I just love that radio show. Anyway today it was about marriage and something profound was said.
Your marriage should be like a cloth diaper.
I LOVE THIS!!!
In todays world so many things are disposable, silverware, dishes, hand towels, watches, even husbands and wives.
Marriage is not supposed to be a throw away item...disposable.
If we looked at our married life like a diaper, in our hearts is it disposable? Are we all just waiting for the moment that it gets messy and starts to stink, for the moment when the "situation" gets to be too gross to handle, so we can just throw it away and bring in a new one?
Here is the first issue. A diaper is a diaper, and a marriage is a marriage, and no matter how you handle them they are all going to stink at one time or another.
I think (and so does the guy who talked about it on the radio today) We should look at our marriage more like a cloth diaper. It will get nasty, it will stink, there will be "situations" but when they arise you work them out. You clean them up, you deal with them, hang them out to dry and then you bring them back in the house put them back on and keep on crawling!
You don't throw them away!
Marriage is hard ,but it is not a throw away item.
So is your marriage disposable or is it just an old cloth diaper one you know might get stinky but you are willing to work with and clean up for love?
1 comment:
Love this! It was this way of thinking that forever changed my marriage about 3 years ago. No matter how " stinky" either of us, or our circumstances may get. We are in this thing for the long haul. Throwing it out is simply not an option. Happy to have just celebrated 5 years last Friday!!
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