Marital Representation

My husband emerged from the bathroom this morning with a smirk on his handsome face.

"I have found the perfect representations of our differences", he stated, 

obviously pleased with his discovery.

I thought perhaps a delicate, fragrant rose and a rugged piece of wood

were hiding, held in his hands behind his back.

But instead...

 

(mine to the right, his to the left).

"Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way, (or expect the other to dispense toothpaste the way he/she does). It is not irritable (blaming monthly hormones is no reason the other should have to live on eggshells), and it keeps no record of being wronged,(especially when it involves a beloved flannel shirt from 1977 being given to Goodwill). It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.  Love never gives up, never loses faith (that the toilet paper roll will be put on the correct way), is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance."

~I Corinthians 13:4-7 (Slightly Revised, July 24, 2011)