Monday’s Mantra
Have you
ever had a disagreement with the one you love that exasperated and baffled you
all at the same time? Recently I had
one of those with my husband and it left me truly frustrated and perplexed, but
it also taught me something! Thanks for joining me for Coffee Hour with
Chicklit Power and Monday’s Mantra with Trench Classes United.
The
disagreement was definitely not what I would consider trivial but without
getting into the details, we each were stuck on our interpretation and feelings
about what we were disagreeing about. I was defending what was right, not who
was right.
We were
about a good 15 minutes into it when a light bulb went on for me and I realized
we weren’t getting anywhere because we both believed what we believe, so I
decided to just stop talking about it. I mean the disagreement looked something
like a truck stuck in wet sand, the engine trying with all its power to get a
burst of traction to move even an inch, but it just couldn’t muster up the
power.
When I
pulled away from the tug-of-war, a very quiet voice said these words: Love does not demand
its own way.
It was the
sweetest scolding I’ve ever gotten. J J J
I’d like to
say that I immediately, in slow motion, went running to my husband, gushing
with apologetic love…but that’s not what happened. But what did happen is these
quiet words spoken in the crevices of my frustrated soul, only after I had
dared to step back, took me out of the tug-of-war and affirmed my resignation
with yet another whisper, an echo of a verse I had heard at a wedding: “The
Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.” Exodus 14:14
Help me, oh,
Lord, to love and respect him, to pull out of the tug-of-war without pulling
away from him!
Love,
Kim-Evinda
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