When Christ is in you God does amazing things.

The world values success and success is measured in terms of money, status, prestige, the size of the home and the size of one's bank account.  The world takes pity on people who stay married when one partner becomes severely disabled. After all, the world believes that you deserve to be happy and to stay married to a spouse who suffered a life threatening stroke is simply wrong. However, God's message is for the husband and wife to stay married until death do they part.

I saw  this in my own parents marriage. When mom suffered a very severe stroke in the late 1990's which left her with speech aphasia and wheel chair bound dad made it clear to anyone who asked that he would remain faithful until the end. Mom was beautiful in her youth. Dad was smart, a college trained Engineer and a honorable discharged United States Marine.  They, like most couples, had their rough moments in life, but it never entered into his mind to leave his wife. Not even after her debilitating stroke did he even consider the notion to leave her.

Commitment is a rare thing in this day and age and is it any wonder why today's young people are entering into adulthood already accepting the reality that they will be going through divorce at least a couple of times before they make it right?  God's plan is for a man and wife to be committed to each other even in the face of disability, adversity, death of a child and economic disaster.

As I watched my dad say goodbye to his wife in 2005 my heart was made glad by this man's commitment to this woman even when she was no longer able to be the person she was before her stroke.  If this touched you please turn to your spouse and tell him/her how much you love them.