It’s that time of year again … the mundane time of year!
The daylight is fleeting, the leaves are falling, the schedules are underway, and the next holiday or ‘down time’ is still counted in weeks … or months.
We live with our crammed full calendars. We struggle to find refreshment, stress is our most common state, sabbath is a day of the week with almost as many commitments as the other six days, and romance … maybe we should start scheduling that too.
We have entered the survival season.
Then, today, I came across wise words, from a woman whose passion it is to encourage women to be Proverbs 31 women. That daunting scripture that seems to describe the ‘perfect’ woman, Proverbs 31, Lysa realized wasn’t about “her activity but rather the (Proverbs 31) woman’s identity that mattered the most.”
So, today, in this survival season, I want to share her words, and encourage us all to look for unrushed moments in each of our mundane days.
“My marriage isn’t perfect. No marriage is.
I’ve been known to throw orange juice across the kitchen, pitch a complete fit over something totally irrational, and go silent for days.
Yeah me.
But twenty two years has taught me love, real love, is two people deciding to stay. Work it out. Fall in love again. And fight for, not against, one another.
Each morning I have a routine with my husband. It’s simple. Nothing profound. Nothing for which we’d ever stop and snap a picture.
It’s just a moment.
He asks me to help him pick a tie. He then needs gentle hands to fold the collar over.
Actually, he doesn’t need. He wants gentle hands to fold the collar over. And I do. It’s just a moment. But it’s a moment where we stop. We see what a gift imperfect love is.
And in this unrushed silence, we connect.
It’s just a moment together. Or is it? …”
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