Passing-Thought

God's gracious sovereignty and a bachelor's responsibility -- a parable

Finding a wife is like a man who stays home from work to find his lost house keys. First, he turns his house upside down: throwing up every sofa cushion, emptying the pockets of every piece of dirty laundry, rummaging waste baskets, tracing his steps, wracking his brain. The state of the house became worse than it was to begin with. So the man sets his house back in order: every counter wiped, every room swept, every book shelved, every paper filed. Finally, all grungy, he gives up in exhaustion and crashes on his couch into a deep sleep. The next morning, the man awakes on his side with the sun peering through the living room window. There across the room are his keys glistening from the precise angle of the morning light. Reflecting upon all these things, the man concluded that while all that searching seemed fruitless, he could not remember the last time he had actually slept in his living room in his normal routine of things.