Another time a young mom called to say her day was a train wreck and could she borrow a movie for her kids to watch so she could get 5 Minutes' Peace? I grabbed a stack of DVDs and hopped in the car. She lives fifteen minutes away so it was a bite out of my afternoon, but that did not lessen my intentions a whit. When I got there she turned on the movie for two eager kids while I scooped up the toy spread and washed a few dishes. Middling fiddling.

 

Marriage is a stomping ground for favors. Sometimes I am driving past the produce store anyway, and picking up John's favorite veggies is a quick way to get a smile. Other times it is a serious inconvenience to hold my palpitating tongue about the gross neglect of what he Shoulda Woulda Coulda done while I was out with the Distraction Squad otherwise known as our kids. Tough stuff.

 

One of the interesting realities of bending over backwards for my husband is what it takes for me to contort my own needs enough to serve his.

 

My heart needs to rise above my head.

 

 

 

If people were to make love to the Lord and kindness towards the neighbor the chief thing of faith, their differences would be no more than shades of opinion which truly Christian people would leave to individual conscience, and in their hearts would say that a person is truly a Christian when he or she lives as the Lord teaches. If this were so all the different Churches would become one, and all the disagreements which stem from doctrine alone would disappear. Indeed the anger one person holds against another would be dispelled in an instant, and the Lord's kingdom on earth would come. Heavenly Secrets 1799

 

 

 

 

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