I have to confess that I didnt get the ashes out of the stove on ash Wednesday. Todays not looking too good either. Maybe I will keep my ashes in there until this time next year. I was able to get rid of a few things around the house though so I did do some decluttering. I was talking to my sister about where to purchase a good heavy duty door mat that would take the abuse of lots of mud scraping off ones shoes. She told me to not go terribly expensive on the one at the backdoor because there is a good chance that one of my dogs will chew it up. I hadnt even thought of that and she is 100% correct. She speaks from experience! She said she had a nice one and every time you let her pitbull out the backdoor he took off with the door mat. I have a beagle that acts just like her dog and I am guessing he will do the same. So we will get a less expensive one and work on leaving it alone. This is why you should bounce your thoughts and ideas off others. You never know what valuable information that have.
Last night Mr Ladybug was getting ready for bed. He pulled back the blankets, got under them and started complaining that the blankets were in the wrong order. That man is so silly. I assure him that it would be fine but he was not having it. After a few minutes he even said I dont think I can sleep like this. What am I going to do with him? Its sort of funny because on the weekends he usually makes the bed when I get up and start making breakfast and it drives me crazy when he doesnt put the blankets in the right direction. We each have a favorite blanket and in his defense I did put my favorite quilt first and his blanket second.
Next there was this morning when I drive him to work. I do this most Thursdsays because its my grocery and errand day. We are driving out of the neighborhood and he said its feels weird with you driving because you drive so slow. I drive the speed limit. We have went over this a million times. We have even used a stop watch to time our routes. Speed or routes do not matter at 6 am in our city with all the traffic lights. We got to work in the same time frame as he does when hes obviously speeding.
I am not telling you all this to make my husband look bad,these are just two things that he does that drive me crazy and I am sure if you asked him what I do that drives him crazy he would have a pretty long list as well. I remember early in our marriage when we had three young kids and were sleep deprived these things would sometimes lead to some pretty heated arguments. Which usually led to us not talking to each other. So the thing I am wanting and have been glad to have gotten rid of mostly is anger. Do we still push each others button and get angry? Of course we do, we have just learned that most of it really doesnt matter and dont stay mad all that long.
I dont actually get angry all that much unless it involves someone messing with my kids. Even though they will each be 27, 22 and 20 years old within the next month I will mess you up if you mess with them. I even woke up so mad that other morning because I had a dream that my daughters ex boyfriend was calling her and saying mean thing to upset her. In my dream I was on my way to Walmart to buy a baseball bat to bust up his knees. I told Mr Ladybug that once I had woken up that I hadnt gotten the bat and he told me not to be silly that we didnt need to buy a bat that we had a whole bag of them in the garage and that we wouldnt just go bust him up we would start by slashing all his tires. This is why our marriage is so perfect and healthy we get each other so well.
In all seriousness I have spent lots of wasted time being angry over things that dont really matter and angry for way to long over some things that do matter. Anger isnt necessarily bad if it makes you take action and I dont mean taking baseball bats to people. I am talking about it makes you want to make things better. I recently seen a man being very mean to a lady. I am sure she was a prostitute and he was her boss. I make sure to keep up with a womens shelter in that area and donate things they need because they give that lady a safe place to go and help her and others like her.
Here is my verse for today..
Ephesians 4:26-27 [Full Chapter]
Go ahead and be angry. You do well to be angry—but don’t use your anger as fuel for revenge. And don’t stay angry. Don’t go to bed angry. Don’t give the Devil that kind of foothold in your life.
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