Joy Break: Enduring Love

A story of love that will melt your heart like ice cream on a hot day.

By Nancy Flory Published on July 27, 2017

Our television or smart phones bombard us with news that brings us down. Where has all the good news gone? Those stories are still there. Here is a story that we hope will brighten your day.

A pastor who took his kids for ice cream in the Tennessee heat snapped a heartwarming photo of an elderly man spoon feeding his wife ice cream. His Facebook post of the scene has now gone viral.

Pastor Brent Kelley took his kids to Sonic for ice cream Monday night in the blistering heat. When he backed out of his parking space, he noticed the man next to him. “…I realized that this elderly man beside me was sitting outside his car door, spoon feeding his wife ice cream who also looked in her late eighties,” he wrote on Facebook. “He draped a towel over her and slowly fed his bride in the 98 degree temperature. It was a beautiful display of love.”

Perhaps it is the living out of Ephesians 5:28-30 that really captures our attention: 

In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church — for we are members of his body.

Kelley’s post has captured almost 750,000 likes, almost 300,000 shares and 54,000 comments.

 

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