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Spiritual Reflections I am writing this at the Baptist Mission Guest House in Accra, Ghana, while waiting for my ride to a missions team meeting. Peggy is in the Baptist Mission Guest House in Johannesburg, South Africa, awaiting medical tests and therapy, because of problems with her knee and her neck. There is something wrong with this picture. We decided that I would not accompany her, largely for financial reasons. Her travel and medical expenses come under our medical plan, but since I did not have any medical reason for accompanying her, my expenses would have been personal. It won't happen again. Genesis 2:24 says, "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and they shall become one flesh." In Mark 10:8-9 Jesus affirms that scripture and enlarges on it, "And the two shall become one flesh, so they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate." From South Africa to Ghana is too far to stretch one piece of flesh. From now on its Pat and Peggy, two "Peas" in a pod, and all that can separate us, is the hand of God! Seriously, our separation has made us both aware of just how much we have become one. Being separated, has made our hearts grow fonder, but 44 years ago we said, "until death do us part," and that's what it will take to separate us in the future. I have heard that some marriages are "made in heaven," but the truth of the matter is that, the institution was made in heaven. The successful illustrations of it are made in the workshop of 1 Corinthians 13:4-5, "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs."
Keep your marriage in God's workshop, and I'll see you in church.
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