My favorite Room

William's room is most definitely my favorite room in our house right now...

uncluttered

a little whimsical

peaceful

Of course, no nursery would be complete without a cat that sleeps in the drawer under your crib!
(We are still not sure how he gets in there!)

But my favorite thing about this room...

would be this little man!

Divorce and Alzheimer's

Earlier this week Pat Robertson suggested that someone who divorces their spouse because they suffer from Alzheimer's is not sinning.

1 Corinthians 7:10-11 To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband. But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife.

Ephesians 5:22-33 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. ?(A) Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church,(B) without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. (C)In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— for we are members of his body. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Stepping over the fact that God says "no" to divorice in the first place and moving on, the Bible also says (A) We should being willing to sacrifice everything for our spouses, ergo "others". (B) Our spouse's well-being should be of the utmost importance to us. (C) We should care for our spouse the way would care for our own body, the way Christ cared for us.

While that is shocking enough, Robertson also suggested that a person with Alzheimer's is "gone". I have spent several years working with the geriatric population and have witnessed the sad toll that Alzheimer's can take on a person. Most of the patients I encountered had a very faithful spouse or child, one who never dreamed leaving their loved one for their own ease and pleasure. And no matter how far "gone" that person is, there is always still some sort of a connection there. I knew a woman who "wasn't married" but would sit and tell you about the cutest boy she ever knew "Willy" and she wondered what ever happened to him. But when Willy was there she could tell you exactly who he was: "that's my ol' husband". And no matter how "gone" they are, they are still loved by our God and they should be by their family as well, just as Christ loves the church.

I love this author's explanation of the body

Two wonderful months

When your smiling...

 When your laughing...