One of my pastors was preaching from Genesis 12, and he came to the part of the story where Abram and his wife Sarai head to Egypt during a time of famine. The account highlights the cowardly moment when the patriarch asks his attractive wife to tell the Egyptians that she is his sister, which was technically true, but to keep their marriage on the Q.T.
In an attempt to help the congregation imagine Sarai’s arresting beauty, the pastor said, “Sarah is about 65 years old here, and most of us don’t think about 65-year-olds as objects of beauty.” He paused for a moment, giving us time to think about the Medicare recipients in our midst, then offered his thoughts about the phenomenon. “It could be that in the ancient world, they had different standards.”
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