A Great Quote for Catholic/Christian Wives

"We are called to love our husbands with the love of the Father loving our husbands through us. Oh yes, our human love is important, but our human love does not have the power to heal; our human love does not have the power to convict; our human love does not have the power to convert. But God's love, flowing in us, through us, to our husbands, to our children, to every person that we meet, has the power to do all of that and so much more. That is what the sacrament of matrimony is all about. That is why God raised the sacrament to be precisely that... an outward sign instituted by Christ to... give us grace....
"Our matrimony is our vocation. And a vocation has two missions. A vocation has an interior mission, and a vocation has an exterior mission. The interior mission is about our sanctification... our marriage is the path to sanctity that the Lord has chosen for us and that that path is to be lived with another individual, and that we are to both serve each other by bringing each other to the fullness of life in Christ Jesus. And that every circumstance that we experience in our married life together can be used by God to perfect us, to help us to grow in the virtues, to help us to experience that abundant life in Jesus Christ, even in the painful moments.... God will take all of that and lead us to the fulfillment of the interior vocation and mission of our life together - the sanctification and perfection of the other for the sake of eternal life where there is no marriage. The greatest gift that we can give to our husband is to lead him into union with God by being a conduit of God's love for him in his life. The greatest thing that he can do for us is to do likewise. And then we will arrive safely at Heaven's gate... and the Lord will say, 'Well done, My faithful servant. Come into everlasting life.' And we can look at our husbands and say, 'Honey, this is my gift to you - life on high in Christ Jesus.'
"The exterior mission of our vocation to married life is this: to be a sign and a witness to the world of the love of God. A Catholic marriage is meant to be that light that is not hidden under a bushel basket. A Catholic marriage is meant to be that salt of the earth. A Catholic marriage is meant to be that leven in society that says to the rest of the world, "Look there is no reason for [a high] divorce rate because... we made a covenant before Almighty God that, come what may, we will be faithful to Him through our marriage vows, and our marriage testifies to the fact that GOd's grace is real and... is available to us and... binds us closer together in adversity than in those times of joy."

-Johnnette Benkovic, For Love and Marriage, a CD distributed by Lighthouse Catholic Media

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