Saturday was a Christmas shopping day.
Linda, Lindsey, Jeff, and I ventured out on the north side of Dallas.
Our first stop was a place called Sam Moon.
Jeff said he wasn’t going in there but I, on the other hand, felt adventurous.
This is a ladies palace filled with purses, handbags, jewelry, and all the accessories of every kind.
It must have also been filled with every woman of every size, shape, age, and ethnicity in the north Dallas area.
I wandered around the place, perhaps taking in 1/8 of its space and stock.
It didn’t take long before the man-lobe of my brain was hemorrhaging.
What was I thinking?
I couldn’t breath.
One side of my brain screamed out, “There is nothing in here for a man!”
That awakened the other side of my brain who, upon seeing where I had taken us, yelled out too!
The only way I could calm them down was to take them outside into the frigid Texas air.
Once there my son-in-law said, “I told you there wasn’t anything in there for a guy!”
How true but we had lost our wives to the Christmas shopping carnage that lied behind those doors.
So Jeff and I went into a home décor place, where there wasn’t anything for a guy either, but it was less crowded and had some interesting stuff that allowed ½ of my brain to go back to slumbering.
It is written that Adam said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”
Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. Gen 2:23-24
There are definite differences between the sexes.
And husbands and wives may be one flesh but they are not always one mind!
I was willing to stick with Linda in handbag-hades but I couldn’t make it.
Guys can endure a lot but we often choose not to.
Women endure perhaps even more when it comes to where we want to go and what we want to do.
But guys…every so often you must follow your wife’s lead and let her choose the movie, the shopping trip, and the next adventurous stop on your vacation.
If she follows you into the tool department at Sears and lets you buy that laser-guided-circular saw and expresso maker with the optional hammer attachment, then she is following Eph 5:22; Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
And should you choose to venture out and rub elbows with thousands of other females all reaching for the same purse, then perhaps you are following Eph 5:25; Husbands, love your wives.
That can’t be a bad thing!