The temperature was cold Friday morning, 6 degrees, so I decided to warm up by frying some eggs. Rattling around looking for a frying pan, Diane called from the other room, “What are you doing?” “Looking for a frying pan, but I just found it.” A few minutes later she heard new noise. “What are you doing?” “Looking for a spatula. Oh, here it is.” She came into the kitchen, looked at the counter, picked up a little bowl, and gave me a questioning look. “That’s to melt the butter for my toast.” Here’s her punch line. “I know more about your workbench than you know about the kitchen.” True. “She opens her mouth with wisdom” (Proverbs 31:26)
“It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him” (Genesis 2:18). “Husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way. They are heirs with you of the grace of life” (1 Peter 3:7). “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her” (Ephesians 5:25). Isn’t it revealing that the Bible often speaks of Christ and the Church as bride and groom? “This mystery is profound” (Ephesians 5:32).
After my most satisfying eggs, Diane started cleaning up the kitchen. She wasn’t going to trust it to me. “You don’t put the frying pan in the dishwasher?” I asked. “Not one with a coating.” Then I put that little bowl, the melted butter bowl, in the dishwasher. “Not that way,” she said, and she put it in properly. “She looks well to the ways of her household.” “An excellent wife who can find?” (Proverbs 31:27, 10). Well, I can find her. All I have to do is start bumbling around in the kitchen.
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