She Ain’t Heavy
| Ephesians 5:25-33
SPECIAL INSTALLMENT: FATHER’S DAY
The best thing a father can do for his childrenis to love their mother.
The preacher asked her, and she said I do.
The preacher asked me, and she said yes he does too.
And the preacher said I pronounce you 99 to life.
Son, she’s no lady, she’s your wife.
We as preachers may especially appreciate the humorously pessimistic picture of marriage in singer Lyle Lovett’s fan-favorite “She’s No Lady, She’s My Wife.” It’s a picture of a reluctant, whiny husband, a controlling wife and a prisonlike marriage. And if you remember the tumultuous tabloid breakup of Lyle and Julia, then a new layer of cathartic commentary emerges.
While Lyle likened his marriage to incarceration, there are other men who find competition emerging from theirs, and no such competition is more spectacular than that which is being played out on July 7 in Sonkajärvi, Finland.
Wife-carrying.
The 2007 Wife Carrying World (yes, world) Championships are now celebrating their 15th year of competition in this tiny Finnish village. And...
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