I, by chance while out driving, have heard quadriplegic Joni Earekson Tada speaking
on Christian radio several times recently. She and her husband, Ken,
have come out with a book about marriage. She had the most
beautiful illustration that I wanted to pass along, although I won't be
able to say it as well as she did.
She said that, every morning, a couple of women come to help her get ready for the day. There were some dried rose
petals on her bathroom counter that had fallen off a bouquet. The girls were starting to clean them up and she
asked them to stop, take the petals, and crush them in their fingers.
Then she asked them to hold up the crushed petals to her nose. She
smelled the beautiful fragrance that came when those petals were
crushed.
Joni said that this is what marriage is like. You are crushed,
and as you allow the crushing to take place, a beautiful fragrance comes forth.
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