Behind Every Great Man...

You know the saying, "Behind every great man is a woman tugging on his sleeve"?

It's true.

Most of us know that it is the woman who keeps the home in some semblance of acceptance if company drops by.

Sometimes I think if it weren't for me, a dish would never get washed.

What if I die?

Paper plates, I guess.

Anyway, anyone who has ever had a husband has probably saved him from some sort of gaffe regarding dress, inappropriate remarks, behavior, etc.

Some days, it's a full time job.

Yesterday in church proved my point that the whole thing is a genetic encoding or something.

A toddler, not quite two years old, ran up the  middle isle of the church as the choir was filing in. He had a pen in one hand and a piece of paper in the other. His paci was stuck firmly in his mouth.

Suddenly, instead of his mother appearing, as I supposed would happen, another toddler appeared, this one less than two also, with a paci in place.

However; this was a female. She stood behind the boy, tugged on his sleeve to get his attention, and kept looking back as if you say, "Will some adult come here and rescue this mess? He won't listen to me!"

I knew it right then, though.

Women are always behind the guy, trying to make social rules stick in his thick skull.

She's got a long road ahead of her.

You know, in the Bible, God says in the first book, Genesis, "I will make a helper who is like him." God is talking about the first man, Adam, and he proceeds to make the first woman, Eve.

God used the Hebrew word "ezer" when he said "helper". That word is only used twenty other times in the entire Old Testament. And in every other instance, the person being described is God Himself.

It's used when we need Him to come through desperately. Most of the contexts are life and death, and God is the only hope.

So, a better translation here is lifesaver.

God looked at Adam and said:"I will make a lifesaver who is like  him."

Boy howdy.