Rememberer

My rememberer is broken. The older I get the more forgetful I get. I imagine that is normal. But who knows? I have known oldsters who are as sharp at 80 as they probably were at 17.

I am apt to put something somewhere thinking it is in a place I will not forget and the next day I will search for hours trying to find it. Then of course when it is found, I think why didn’t I look there first? Most of the time whatever it is, it’s nothing important, but once in a while it is.

Since my husband and I have been married I have taken care of all the bill paying and other necessities, even when I was working and raising two kids. Now and again I think, what’s up with that? In this day and age fathers are supposed to be as responsible for the children as the mother is. I think I was born too early.

Anyway, today is a good day for the memory and I remembered I should be posting something soon. But I need to make some phone calls to remind the women in our women’s group that there is a meeting Thursday night. Hey, maybe I am not the only one whose rememberer is broken.

PRAY

There can be no other word in the English language that, when pronounced, sounds as beautiful as the word, “pray.”

“Pray without ceasing.”

Peace

~Vicki~

Changing

The first time I went to a divorce lawyer and voiced my uncertainty that I wanted a divorce the lawyer said something that has stuck with me since then. The lawyer said that people don’t normally change. That the only thing that might make them change was a happening or event in their life that made them realize a change was necessary.

I went to the lawyer because my husband was cheating on me. Again. He had begun cheating on me only a few months after we were married.

At the five year point in our marriage it had happened again. I could not stay married to him and raise our daughter in that atmosphere. She was three years old and already knew things were not right.

The lawyer gave an example of what he meant by circumstances changing a person. He said if a mother didn’t watch her children while they were playing outside and one of them was hit by a car and seriously injured maybe she would be more watchful from that time on. It made sense to me.

After my husband begged me to return and try again, I did so. But eventually we did split up. But not until after we had purchased a home and had another child. He was cheating, but this time had fallen in love with the woman.

So I have always remembered what that lawyer told me. Change is possible, but usually not till a person had undergone a transformation from the old to the new.