...that whatever we decide that we really,really like, the manufacturers promptly discontinue? Recent deaths include sugar-free Tang, sugar-free Mentos, turkey sausage links, McCains roasted potatoes, whatever bra my daughter likes at Vickie's Secret, hot and spicy Chex mix, baked quesadilla chips, and a host of other long-gone and well-loved products.
...that the inverse is true also? Whenever my family decides they love something and I find it on sale I'll buy a large quantity, only to discover that they suddenly don't like it any more.
...that the weather reports are always wrong until THIS year? Yup, every single blessed inch of snow that was predicted showed up. Why could they not have been wrong again, per usual?
...that every time I sent for the registration materials for a master's degree, I found myself pregnant? I'll be fifty this year, and I'm still terrified to even contemplate getting that degree.
...that everyone sneers at and makes fun of that old standard, green bean casserole, but every time I take a big double-batch to a potluck not a spoonful comes home again?
...that I can sit in my comfy old rocker for an hour, but it isn't until five minutes before I have to get up that the cat jumps up into my lap?
...that I have managed to stay married for nearly 23 years? We have absolutely nothing in common. I'm a lark, he's an owl. I like main roads and direct routes, he likes back roads and as many corners to turn as humanly possible. I like veggies, he must have meat. I'm a technotard, he's a technogeek. When vacation time rolls around, I say "At last, some time at home!". He says "Where shall we go?". I'm all about books, he's all about television. I like quiet, he likes background noise. In other words, I'm an introvert, he's an extrovert. It's extraordinary that we ever got married to start with, and it's a miracle that we have stayed that way.
...that a mutual love of God and family can override all those incompatibilities? It's grace, that's all. Sheer grace.
Love, Spud.
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Favorite verses:
- Prov 30:8-9: Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, `Who is the LORD?' Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.
- Rom 8:38-39: For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Ps 119:68: You are good, and what you do is good; teach me your decrees.
- Eph 3:16-19: I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge--that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
About Me
- Spud
- I am: A wife, mother, employer and employee, rabid reader, eager Bible studier, cat-lover, toddler-amuser, round person, and have no particular theological category.
2 comments:
You and Stu are different. But you are also very similar:
* believers
* intelligent
* good senses of humor
* very patient (way more than I)
* able to endure over the long haul (I could give many examples of this, but Kevin's the best)
* not driven to attain worldly things
* not obsessed with prettifying your domicile (i.e., you don't go nuts trying to buy lots of coordinating furniture or fancy wallpaper or what have you)
* like to invest in people over the long haul
* extremely scrupulous in your work
* devoted to learning Scripture (though with different approaches)
* musically trained and skilled
* interested in a genuine religious experience without conventional trappings or hierarchies or class structures--i.e. you are Xenoids at heart
* self-motivated
I could go on. You get the point. You are just so used to the similarities that you only notice the differences. And while the differences can grate, it's God's will that we marry people who are unlike us in important ways, so that we are stretched and given more balance and flexibility.
But if you are amazed at having been married so long, perhaps there are some things Stu does which have been getting under your skin, which you should talk to him about?
On a different note, what would you like to get a master's degree in?
I always thought I'd get my MLS, but it never happened, and these days I'm not sure that wasn't a good thing.For one thing, I really love what I do now, on a peon level. For another, I'm really not sure I'd be a good person to be in charge of things. I'm much better at the temporary work-around types of problems I deal with now than the big-picture things that the degreed folks deal with, and I'm bright enough to know it!
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