"Don't let the sun go down on your anger"

This Sunday is our wedding anniversary. After worship at church, we plan a big South Carolina BBQ for the neighbors at our place with the pig butts having been Q'ed by our priest. Pewsterspouse and I have been blessed with a long marriage for which we give all the glory to God, and today's reading from Ephesians 4:25-5:2 contains many of the reasons for our decades together. 

"So then, putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbours, for we are members of one another. Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not make room for the devil. Thieves must give up stealing; rather let them labour and work honestly with their own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy. Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption. Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, and be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you. Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God."

Did you ever hear the advice, "Never go to bed angry?" We did that, and it goes right back to St. Paul. 

"Live in love, as Christ loved us..." should be the mantra we all say as we go to bed.

I don't know how couples can stay together without Christ being present in their marriage.

May the Lord be with you and yours.