Window Rattler

The rhythm of the clock, tick-tick-tick-doo, it goes and goes.

K-u-n-n-a na na—whoa, K-u-n-n-a na na—whoa…

Boo wa wa shoo…

The gentle roar of a mighty snore, counters the clock in syncopated time.

How can sounds such as these come out of a creature so fare?

How does she snore soooo  loud!

Yep, my room has musical style: deep, noisy, and cantankerous to the ears.

So the plugs of the ears go in, 25 decibels less—yes!

But, the oceanic roar of the snore still comes right through.

I can hear it loud and clear.

Its billows roll, crash and hold then come again.

These strange sounds would frighten a wild bear or lonely wolf. In bizarre wonderment, somehow they soothe me and slow my spinning mind.

Why is any of this spiritual? If you live long enough and look hard enough, you’ll see everything is linked to the spiritual side of life. Our body, soul, and spirit link together and are only separable at death. Yet in marriage I have another link and union. You say, “I know this, what’s point?”  

This window rattler is uniquely mine. Joined at matrimony, our souls are intertwined with God stamping that connection. With complements and contrasts, we're made complete. The person laying next to me is a "living spirit," made by God. Yes, that one keeping me awake melded and merged into my life, making mine hers. God calls it, "one flesh." It’s beyond comprehension that two, can be one. It is one of the paradoxes found in the bible; look through it and you’ll find many. It goes against thinking. It's counter-intuitive, yet true. Two are one? Yes!

 Even with these two as one, how can this ever work? How can it be? Is this true even with me? Then I remember, it never was about me, it's the grace of God that holds us and keeps us. This same grace  molds and transforms us too. Within the context of marriage, we find it only works well in one way: doing it as designed. We are to each take our rolls. Husbands love your wife like Jesus loved the Church—He died for it! Wives, submit to your husbands. And, most miss this, submit to each other. These words about roles aren't mine they are Paul’s, taken from Ephesians.

In our day the words of Paul goes against popularity. When did anything of God fit into popularity? Speaking, this is all easy to say.Yet, like anything else in scripture, it is impossible to do without God's supernatural help. Don't think I'm one to have it all down either. Knowing the words, even knowing the Word, does't just make it all better or easy. We, in fact, are ones that slip out of our roles easily; getting back in them is not so easy. Yet, nothing is impossible with God!

^"Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Wives, submit to your husbands as 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.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her." 

Ephesians 5:21-25 NIV1984