Do They Still Do That? Ep. 2

Speculating on how the couple who broke the 7th commandment ‘did it’.

I couldn’t really tell you what percentage of Canadian Reformed young couples have SEX before they get married. But I bet the chaste are in the scant minority. And I also bet there are a number who are not virgins when they finally meet their future life partner. I can tell you that there were two at least… If you catch me.

When was the last time you heard an announcement during the morning service? About a brother and sister confessing to a breach of the 7th commandment. Was there a subsequent meeting of the gossip brigade immediately following the service? How long did it take you to learn their identities? Four minutes? Five?

I remember the conversation quickly turning to how and when the deed may have been done. Study Weekend? When he drove her to work? When her trusting parents weren’t home?

This, of course, overlooks what I mentioned earlier, that everybody else was doing it too. You see, that’s what living things do. It’s how and why we were made. “Created sick and commanded to be well”. Full of sin. Depraved. Worthless. Wretched… Grovel for forgiveness.

Which naturally leads us to the outcome. Shame. Shame for the parents, grandparents, siblings, but most importantly, for the young couple (who did what you did too), who now have that yoke on top of the burden of simply figuring out how they are going to be good parents.

This is not to say that they wear this badge forever (except that they do. Secretly). People rally around them or course and do what good social groups do. But still. Despite all the drama there is nothing suggesting that these people are anything other than champion parents in the long run. Maybe even better, considering they have learned to weather more bullshit than the average couple.

So in the end, I would move to forego the announcement from the pulpit and chalk it up the same way as CRCers deal with the kid who swore at his parents. Once. And didn’t get stoned to death.

Isn’t it great the ‘Jesse & Bobby’ are pregnant? They going to be such awesome parents…