i'm still at work.. with one more hour to go.. here's a passage that i thought was kinda interesting.. (keke.. i'm very very bored..)

You wives must submit to your husbands' leadership in the same way you submit to the Lord. For a husband is in charge of his wife in the same way Christ is in charge of his body the Church. (He gave his very life to take care of it and be its Savior!) So you wives must willingly obey your husbands in everything, just as the Church obeys Christ.

And you husbands, show the same kind of love to your wives as Christ showed to the Church when he died for her, to make her holy and clean, washed by baptism and God's Word; so that he could give her to himself as a glorious Church without a single spot or wrinkle or or any other blemish, being holy and without a single fault. That is how husbands should treat their wives, loving them as parts of themselves. For since a man and his wife are now one, a man is really doing himself a favor and loving himself when he loves his wife!...

So again I say; a man must love his wife as a aprt of himself; and the wife must see to it that she deeply respects her husband--obeying, praising, and honoring him.

~Ephesians 5:22-28, 33

when i read that, my initial reaction was like, "heck no i ain't submittin to my husband. he better be at my every beck and call. imma make sho that my husband is well-trained before i decide to marry him.. psh~ i am woman, u betta hear me roar!" and then.. i kept reading, and when it got to the part where it said that husbands should love their wives in the same way that Christ loved the Church, i was like...hmm, maybe it's better to be a girl and just have to listen to the husband. dang~ to have to love like Christ loves.. how hard..... i feel sorry for my husband now. hehe~ he's gonna have to love me no matter how bratty i am to him.. keke~ but i guess that means that i should be nicer to him too, huh? keke, how weird.. it's not like i'm plannin on gettin married anytime soon, but this passage stuck out at me. especially the part where it says that the husband has to make the wife holy and without blemish.. craziness.. i guess that's what they're talkin about when they say that the guy is supposed to be the spiritual leader... if i think back to my past relationships... that was definitely not the case. in 2 of my relationships, i think that we tried to say that we were aiming to be God-centered, but i don't think we ever really did. it was mostly us-centered--we did watever we wanted to.. and i never really thought twice about it.. i just figured that i wasn't plannin on marryin' the guy, so it's ok.. blah blah.. but after reading this passage, it made me realize the seriousness of it all. it's not something to be taken lightly... how strange to be thinking about this now...