The laws of thermodynamics and marriage

Last night Keith and Sarah Condie led a seminar on being married at Moore College. A few months ago I described Paul Grimmond as the kind of guy who nurse a sick kitten back to health. I am kind of upset I used this description on Paul, because it applies to Keith even more so. Keith's the kind of guy who would lose sleep over accidentally bumping into someone else's trolley at the supermarket. The kind of guy who would apologise in a restaurant if the waiter bought him the wrong meal, as if somehow he was the one that made the mistake in ordering the wrong item. The kind of guy who would upon accidentally killing a magpie with his car, attempt to find the nest of chicks and feed them by regurgitating worms into their beaks. I'm a big fan of Keith.

There were a number of really helpful matters of pastoral concern that Keith and Sarah added to the seminar. One example was before the encouragement to continually be generous with each other physically (1 Corinthians 7), Keith prefaced his comments by saying what he was about to say didn't apply to anyone with a history of abuse. These comments were reiterated again at the end with an encouragement that despite it being a sad and horrible thing to have suffered abuse, it was important to seek help as soon as possible. In marriage books/seminars/preaching I've heard lots of people tell Christians to make sure they have lots of s*x. But that was the first time I've witnessed such a pastorally aware disclaimer.

One highlight of the night for me came during the conclusion when under the dot point "Vigilance", Keith asked if anyone was aware of the second law of thermodynamics? One of the guys Simon put up his hand and said;

Isn't that the one where when two bodies come together they exchange heat?

Keith replied;

That wasn't what I was thinking, I thought it was the one where things move from order to disorder?

I preferred Simon's answer.

Turns out they were both right.