RESTORING
GOD’S VALUES
by GREG SCHILLO
TO OUR FAMILIES
M
Y WIFE, Nancy, Her distrust of men is obvious as she It is important to be men and women
our college-age meets and reluctantly gets to know the who show up to restore the loving values
daughter, Cath- Christian bus driver who drives her to and behaviors of God into our relation-
erine, and I stayed and from work each business day. After ships, particularly our families. Our post-
up far too late much resistance, she agrees to date him. modern culture cries out for community
one night recently By the end of the film the two marry. and healthy personal relationships, but
to watch a movie on television. Its plot However, at one point her insecurity settles for the shallow stuff of technol-
involves a single mom who is rearing her shows as she wrongly fears her suitor ogy and social websites as the vehicles
two children born out of wedlock from dif- might have been mistreating her chil- to achieve them. The result is a drifting
ferent fathers. She has become a believer in dren. She confronts him, saying in a away from the depth of commitment
Christ along the way, remaining celibate disparaging way, “All men show up for and appropriate intimacy that real rela-
from that time, with the belief that God something.” tionships require, distancing us from one
may provide and give her permission to He responds gently, “Some men show another and the appreciation of what
marry a man of His choice. up to restore.” God intends.
22 EVANGEL • MAR 2010
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