It was with a sense of pure
disbelief, then outrage, that I viewed the photographs of one of my favourite
TV chefs apparently being publically assaulted in a posh London restaurant. The
person dishing out the pain and humiliation was not some ‘drug addled crazy
person’, but wait for it....................yes it was none other than her
husband, Mr Charles Saatchi, millionaire art collector.
Writing in the Telegraph
yesterday, Alice Arno put this question: “Let’s just suppose you are in a
restaurant. It’s lunchtime. It’s broad daylight. There are many other diners
about and you are in a well-populated area. Then all of a sudden you see a
couple clearly having a bit of a row. The argument gets a little heated and you
notice the woman looking fearful. The man then puts his hand on her neck. What
do you do? ........................The answer, apparently, seems to be nothing.
While people on the street
walked past and a member of the paparazzi was in the vicinity taking
photographs, no one thought it might be appropriate to intervene in any way.”
I listened to a debate about
the issue of intervention on Radio 2 yesterday afternoon.
Apparently there are two schools of thought:
The first says that non
intervention should be followed on the grounds that information about the
background to the incident is unclear and that any intervention might actually
make matters worse for the (alleged) victim..............Sorry..... as a Christian
I can’t buy that !!!
The second view is that
fellow diners and waiting staff should have intervened. Indeed there was a
moral imperative for them to do so.
As a Scot I like
to think that the assault of a woman in a Glasgow or Edinburgh restaurant would
be promptly opposed and faced down by fellow diners and waiting staff.
Polly Neate, the chief
executive of Women’s Aid had this to say: “While it is shocking to see someone
as high-profile as Nigella Lawson linked to an alleged attack by her partner,
it is vital to remember that domestic violence is actually extremely prevalent,
with one in four women being abused by a partner at some point in her lifetime.
Many women do not tell
anyone because they feel embarrassed or ashamed. Having this story in the news
is likely to resonate with many women currently living with abuse, and it is
important to remind everyone that there is help and support out there.”
While women sometimes don’t
speak up preferring to suffer in silence, their pain and anguish is noticed by God ! The Bible gives very clear
advice to husbands concerning the treatment of wives.
In Paul’s letter to the
church in Ephesus, husbands are exhorted to: “love your wives, as Christ loved
the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having
cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present
the church to himself in splendour, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing,
that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should
love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For
no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ
does the church.”
Charles Saatchi take
note.......you may be rich and powerful, but the living God who judges the
living and the dead always has the last word....so wise up, repent and start
acting like the husband God intends you to be. Prove to the nation that you are
a worthy husband for Nigella rather than the ‘prat’ that’s starring in the
newspapers.
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