God, no matter how bad his children are, no matter how rank the stench from his people’s rebellion toward him, never turns his back on them or puts them away. His mercy is phenomenal. His mercy on our wretchedness draws me, draws others. He asks husbands to be an example of His love for His church in their love for their wives.To be called on to be a witness to that mercy; to be a living embodiment within my marriage of that love; for my husband to be the quintessential Ephesians’ 5 husband that has greatly grown this here woman toward being a daughter of Sarah; for Dirt to be an example of Christ’s love for his church by loving and caring for me, no greater earthly joy can be mine.