For Love Alone
Smash! Thump! Craaaaaaack!
The man straightened up, his hair all astray. Blood was pouring from his nose. Both eyes were blackened and bruised. Turning to the girl he loved, he smiled through the grime and tears.
“For you alone I did it my Sweetheart… and just because I love you so!”
The woman stared back into his eyes. “I know my dearest,” she whispered softly. “Thank-you!”
Mary’s glanced dropped to the prone figure on the floor. She remembered how he had forced his way into the house and laid hold of her whilst Joey had been working in the barn. And she remembered Joey racing in at the sound of her screams. How he had tackled the roughly clad stranger and knocked him out.
With a sob of gratefulness and love for the man who had saved her, she threw herself into her arms and cuddled into him. Joey clutched his shoulder and winced with pain. The girl noticed the movement, although it was subtle. She looked up into his eyes and said, “Does it hurt?”
“Just a little my darling,” he replied. “But its okay, I’ll be alright soon enough. I will have to call the Police now to come and collect this thug.”
But Mary was having none of that. Pushing Joey into a chair, she fussed over him and tended his injuries with a devotion that would bring a tear to your eye.
Joey took it all as a matter of course. He didn’t see his protecting the woman as anything special… in fact, if the truth be known he thought it was normal to act that way.
Many people today need to see that in God’s design of things, it is mans place to protect the woman… not the other way around. Sadly many women believe they are capable of defending themselves… but unfortunately, they say this without understanding the facts.
In the Garden of Eden, God intended that man should look after the woman. When a man tries his hand at raising children alone he changes God’s order, and although it can sometimes work (with great hardship and effort) there is not the happiness that we receive when we keep within God’s design.
For God made women to be women… and he made men to be men. Let us all keep to our roles in life as God intended… and we shall find true peace and contentment.
By Adam R. B. Reeve
20th June 2011
The man straightened up, his hair all astray. Blood was pouring from his nose. Both eyes were blackened and bruised. Turning to the girl he loved, he smiled through the grime and tears.
“For you alone I did it my Sweetheart… and just because I love you so!”
The woman stared back into his eyes. “I know my dearest,” she whispered softly. “Thank-you!”
Mary’s glanced dropped to the prone figure on the floor. She remembered how he had forced his way into the house and laid hold of her whilst Joey had been working in the barn. And she remembered Joey racing in at the sound of her screams. How he had tackled the roughly clad stranger and knocked him out.
With a sob of gratefulness and love for the man who had saved her, she threw herself into her arms and cuddled into him. Joey clutched his shoulder and winced with pain. The girl noticed the movement, although it was subtle. She looked up into his eyes and said, “Does it hurt?”
“Just a little my darling,” he replied. “But its okay, I’ll be alright soon enough. I will have to call the Police now to come and collect this thug.”
But Mary was having none of that. Pushing Joey into a chair, she fussed over him and tended his injuries with a devotion that would bring a tear to your eye.
Joey took it all as a matter of course. He didn’t see his protecting the woman as anything special… in fact, if the truth be known he thought it was normal to act that way.
Many people today need to see that in God’s design of things, it is mans place to protect the woman… not the other way around. Sadly many women believe they are capable of defending themselves… but unfortunately, they say this without understanding the facts.
In the Garden of Eden, God intended that man should look after the woman. When a man tries his hand at raising children alone he changes God’s order, and although it can sometimes work (with great hardship and effort) there is not the happiness that we receive when we keep within God’s design.
For God made women to be women… and he made men to be men. Let us all keep to our roles in life as God intended… and we shall find true peace and contentment.
By Adam R. B. Reeve
20th June 2011