It has now been 3 years that we have been a part of the Bib Fam board, and I do look back with fondness on this thread from our first few weeks as members for so many reasons. The first is that it shows me once again that I am blessed to be married to the man that I am. I have never met anyone who wants God the way that he does, and is continually under the "surgical knife" of the Holy Spirit to become all that he needs to be to be the leader of our home that he already is and is also becoming. The second is that the sentimental journey chronicled here as we have gone from long time plural marriage theorists to preparing to add a new wife to our family this summer. I look back on these early posts with amusement, especially considering the warp speed at which we have had to grow over the last few months since Datzy came into our lives. It has been boot camp for all of us, and I am glad we are getting through it.
The third is that I am reminded again of my huge responsibility to be an excellent example as a woman of God, irrespective of whatever label I have in the "lineup" as a wife. I have a responsibility to be a help that is meet or suitable for my husband, whether or not he has more wives. I have a responsibility to treat my sister-wife-to be so well that she is able to utter my favorite words, i.e. "I am so happy here." Now that I am transitioning from theorist to practitioner, I am realizing that in so many ways my journey toward the "deeper life" has really only begun.
As I consider my soon to be former life as a mono wife, I see how there have been so many internal places over the course of my life wherein selfishness has seeped, all of it encouraged by our "me" culture, and even through the idolatry that is woven into most Christian marriage books and seminars. But, I also am aware of His grace and the fact that it means a great deal to our Father that we would be willing to stare down a thousand years of man's tradition and say, "Sola scriptura, sola Spiritus!"
