It is divinely revealed truth that husbands are called to lead their wives in the way that Christ leads the Church. This means that husbands are called to serve, direct, die for, and cherish their wives.
It was the eve of the Epiphany, and my wife and I had taken our kids to the local arena for a public skate. It was a typical small-town Canadian setting: families enjoying our favorite pastime, children clad in bicycle helmets and snow pants.
Then, disaster struck.
My wife was raised a figure skater and is quite graceful on the ice. In fact, she is a much more natural skater than I am, even though I have played hockey for many years. Truth be told, I have spent my time as a goaltender, so I never needed to develop much of a stride.
That said, by some one-in-a-million fluke, while my wife was standing beside me on the ice, she was suddenly horizontal with the frozen surface, and her head hit the ice.
It was a direct hit to the back of her head, and the sound was audible and gut-wrenching.
Never in all her years of skating had she fallen like that, and I am still not sure how it even happened.
Blood was streaming out of the back of her head, and she was unconscious. For a moment, we couldn’t find a pulse—although it might have just been difficult to find given the frenzy of people rushing over.
She proceeded to go into a significant seizure and remained unresponsive.
There was a brief moment in that minute that felt like a decade, where I resigned myself to the fact that my wife might be dying or dead.
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Husbands, Lead and Cherish Your Wives – Crisis Magazine
Husbands, Lead and Cherish Your Wives – Crisis Magazine
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