Gift of Self and Marriage

In a culture today where marriage is thrown around like a term from yesterday, here is a profound example of the marriage covenant, "til death do us part" and an example for all of us, whether we are married, celibate, or single.

Here is the link below to the resignation speech of Robertson McQuilkin, where he resigned as President of Columbia International University. He resigned to care for his wife, Muriel, who had Alzheimer's.

The statement which really stands out for me is his commitment to his wife in marriage, and not only the "good times." He says, "Its not that I have to, it's that I get to." 

When I first heard this story back in the late 1990s on my car radio, I had to pull the car over and cried. I wondered if my own marriage could be that strong. My own father at that time had Alzehimer's and my mother cared for him for over a decade.

In the day where the dignity of the human body is being discarded like trash,  we must behold and hold up the dignity of the human body, whether a young body in the best of health or the suffering of the elderly.