Archive for June, 2011

Is Commitment Obsolete? (Marriage Monday)

(My man and I reading together on the patio.)

No.

I can’t tell you how commitment in marriage is doing all over the world but I notice what the media touts in our part of the world. The perception here is that it is indeed dead or near death, obsolete, or at least on its way out, and yet our media ITSELF wrestles with this idea… Our popular culture would like to say commitment isn’t important and isn’t relevant today but why would they be so horrified and blow so many horns when ever some one new fails at marriage?

Lets be practical… as long as people are being wrecked and broken thanks to failing marriages commitment is still important and for our own good.

I can never judge a couple who sticks it out despite all the odds or all the sins that can be brought into marriage and also I do not judge those couples who suffer a death of marriage… Even divorce does not make commitment obsolete but makes it more clearly valuable. The brokenness makes the whole so much more valuable… the dark makes the light all the more obvious and glorious… the suffering makes the victory so much sweeter.

Truth doesn’t die no matter how powerful and nasty the lie becomes and COMMITMENT is what makes marriage true.

First Monday of every month at Chrysalis

TTFN

Reading

I have been a insatiable reader since I was very young… it pleases me to no end to watch my children discover the joy of reading too… it amazes and excites me to watch my husband find the joy in it in his 30s FINALLY… Yesterday my kids and their cousin built a little nest of blankets and pillows in the living room, then laid down to read the books we had just found at the local library. I was able to make supper in peace at this time. The specialness of the moment didn’t pass me by.TTFN

Enter the Wimp

(The unusual apple trees we have in our yard are almost unnoticeable from the yard, because they are hidden by our row of healthy cedars… but leave through the back gate and have a look from the alley and you have something so much bigger then you would have thought… beautiful!)

Okay…

so let me get this straight…

I have to fight for myself…

with in the health care system…

I am sorry… I am writing these incoherent thoughts after a walk to try and clear my head… which came after a rant that didn’t help it make sense and all that after a day of trying to de-stress about it… which was needed after the second call where I was treated like a pain in the ass for asking for help and advice and some clarity from health care workers… which followed, of course, the diagnosis and wanting to know ‘what next’

To be honest… I am intimidated… don’t like the idea of ‘fighting for myself’ in this area…

The best I can come up with is perhaps cliché to some but it is all I’ve got right now… cuz I certainly don’t feel strong enough to fight at present…like everything else I am going to give this to Jesus and pray for his words and timing in relation to this and just trust… cuz this gut wrenching stuff is not even close to a healthy alternative…

TTFN