Friends had Marty and me over one night for pizza, salad and general hang out time. It was just what I needed after work week/day even though I wouldn’t have thought so as tired as I was. I was revived by it. Nothing planned just being with friends. Grateful for that.

So these friends love hitting Goodwill, antique places, garage sales and such for fun. This mug is one of the things they picked up and gifted it to me…(there is one for Marty too but about being a man of faith and all)

My mug has a verse from Proverbs 31..that infamous collection of verses for women to aspire to… that nearly did our marriage in before it ever got started!

We had only been seeing each other a short while. I was still quite new to being a Christian and wanted to be walking it out … ahhh but then this bundle of verses portraying the Godly Superwoman. Everything I was not. I can still picture the room we were in, the couch I was sitting on when Marty opened a Bible to this passage and sincerely said ” This is what I want in a wife”. Time stopped for me and thoughts began skittering through my mind. Thoughts like ” You’d better start looking somewhere else…” The tune and words pop into the background ” to dream the impossible dream..”

Well flashing not only back but forward, two very flawed people determined to live for Jesus the One who saved us from our sins past, present and future got married and lived not always happily ever after but with a mixture of love, lots of children, happy times and trying times that nearly did us in, all the things that test the wedding vows and grow us up…

That job description for Superwoman…well I have learned along the way…it’s not all of those things all at once I don’t think. It’s a picture of a lifetime. Kind of like when I would buy my kids a coat just a bit big because they would grow into it…that’s how I see this now…something to grow into