The morning text comes from the letter to the Ephesians, Ephesians 521 through 64.

Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Wives, be subject to your husbands as to the Lord.

For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is head of the Church, his body, and is himself its Savior.

As the Church is subject to Christ, so that wives also be subject in everything to their husbands.

Husbands love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he

might sanctify her having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,

that he might present the church to himself in splendour without spot or wrinkle or any such thing that she might be holy and without blemish.

Even so, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies.

He who loves his wife loves himself.

For no man ever hates his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it,

as Christ does the Church, because we are members of his body. For this reason a man shall leave his

father and mother and be joined to his wife and the two shall become one flesh. This

mystery is a profound one and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Children obey your parents in the Lord for this is right.

Honor your father and mother.

This is the first commandment with a promise that it may be well with you and that you may live long on the earth.

Fathers do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

I think everybody wants a happy home.

Not only a happy home, I think most people want a family with purpose and destiny and direction that goes beyond just the satisfying of our immediate personal desires or needs.

We want homes where every person flowers rather than fades. We want

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