A banker called in a certain man to talk to him about his account. "Your financial affairs are in a mess," he said to the poor man. "Your wife constantly overdraws your account. She is behind in her charge accounts at the department store, and her check stubs are all added wrong. Why don't you talk to her about it?"

"Because," said the man, "I would rather argue with you than with her."

There's a man whose marriage is badly out of balance.

Balance. We are all trying to find it, aren't we? Balance between work and leisure. Balance between job and family. Balance between time devoted to church and time for ourselves. Balance between the foods we like and the foods that are good for us. Some creative person has done a satire on the creation story. Let me read portions of it:

In the beginn…