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1.13.11

"The tabernacle, in ancient times, was a mysterious representation of certain eternal concepts that Israel was not yet equipped to understand. The priests were the stewards of those mysteries. Likewise, the husband as priest in his home is charged with the guarding of mysteries. It's his business to remember what marriage represents-the heavenly union of Christ and His Bride-and to pay attention to the everyday means of living this out with the woman God gave him.
Often the attempt will seem so laughable, such a travesty, so ludicrously unlike what it stands for, that both will wonder how God could possibly have laid such a solemn task at their door. If the toast is burning, the phone ringing, the baby pouring milk down the mother's back, and the husband frantically trying to find his briefcase in time to make the car pool, he will not at the moment feel much like a "trustee of the mysteries." But he is one nevertheless. "No one takes this honor upon himself; he must be called by God," the writer to the Hebrews says.
You wouldn't choose it for yourself, but if you remember that you're called by God to the work, and if you witness to that calling in the home you establish, it will be a saving, even a life-transfiguring, reality."
-Elizabeth Elliot.
This is from the book I posted about a week or so ago, called "Taking Flight." I highly recommend it.
I finished The Chronicles of Amber a couple days ago and it's a good thing too!! I seriously could not put it down, especially at the end. It's a great series of books, very complex and interesting. Easy to read, but well written. Now I'm "only" reading TWO books outside of school/devotions. Ha. Both of which are worthy of being read. :D I'll post about them later on.

-Shaina