Love your wife

At the family reunion, three generations sat enjoying their time together. As they talked and laughed the conversation turned serious when the youngest wife asked her husband, "What would you do if our house caught on fire and I was passed out on the floor?" The young husband replied, "I would toss you over my shoulder like a bag of potatoes, carry you to safety, and we would live happily ever after." To this the young wife exclaimed, "My hero!”

The mother then turned to her middle-aged husband and asked, "What would you do?" The father answered, "I would roll you onto a sheet or blanket, drag you to safety, and we would live happily ever after." The mother responded to his answer by saying, "You are my hero!" 

The aged grandmother then looked to her husband who no longer possessed the strength to pick up more than a sack of flour and asked, "What would you do, my love?" The old man tenderly grasped the hand of his elderly wife, and while gently pressing it to his lips said, "I would take you in my arms, pull you close to my heart, and gladly perish with you in the fire. Then we will live happily ever after." With tears in her eyes the old woman replied, "You have always been, and always will be, my hero!”

"Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her" (Eph. 5:25).