This past Friday I had the opportunity to teach the group. When I told Phil I was trying to decide what to teach, never to be one to withhold his opinion, he said, "I know what you should tell them. You should tell them to get up from the table immediately and go home and bake something. Teach them to take better care of their husbands."
Then he reminded me of this cartoon that we saw a few weeks ago...
Now don't worry. He was being sarcastic.
But it got me to thinking about these verses in Titus 2:
3 Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. 4 Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, 5 to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.
So I went with it. What a great discussion we had! We got down to the nitty-gritty of what it means to love your husband, what loving your children really looks like, what "being busy at home" is all about, and last, but certainly not least, what it means to be subject to your husband.
None of this stuff is easy. It's hard work. It's messy and pesky and confusing. But it's what our real life, here and now, is all about. And if we can't apply our Christianity in our homes with our husbands and children, where can we apply it? On the other side of the coin, if we don't talk about the struggles we have in living this out in our homes and marriages, how can we overcome, how can we stand the storms? Because they're there for all of us, and they're tough. If we never tell people how we struggle, we make them feel like they are the only ones who feel this way, that what is happening to them is not natural. And we set them up for discouragement and failure.
So we shared, honestly and openly. And it was good for our souls.
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