God then made all the animals. But He saw that they were not "just right" for Adam.
Genesis 2:21--24: "So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. While the man slept, the Lord God took out one of the man's ribs and closed up the opening. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib, and he brought her to the man. 'Atlast!' the man exclaimed. 'This one is bone from my bone, and flesh from my flesh. She will be called 'woman,' because she was taken from 'man.'' This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one."
The process of leaving and cleaving. Man, is that the hardest. During post-marital counseling, this had been one of the most important facts that I have been told to remember during these first two years of marriage.There have been so many things about myself that I have had to "leave" in order for me to "cleave" to my wife and become one with her. Leaving is painful. There are so many things that I have had to try really hard to leave in my past. Inappropriate relationships, selfish thoughts or actions, prioritizing mother and father (extended family), etc. These are things that are just so difficult to leave because whether they are right or wrong, they have been part of my life for 95% of the time. But there is a reason why God decided to put this passage literally in the forefront of the Bible. Marriage is the foundation of humanity. And in order to have a successful marriage, we must let go of our past and our selfishness and cling to the new (our wives). What sucks, is that she too has to do the same thing--making the process twice as hard. But its worth it.
What I get from this passage is that even though this process is probably the hardest process I have experienced in my life, and it may seem at times that it's too much to handle...my wife is "just right for me." God has ordained us to be together and there is a reason why she is in my life and a reason why we both made a commitment before God to honor and to love each other for the rest of our lives--in sickness and in health! Carla is just right for me because God chose her for me! What an awesome reality.
How will I make sure that she knows that she is right for me? I'm guessing: affirmation...my focus during this time.
"God help me in this journey as I grow to show Carla the she is just right for me. Amen"
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