Abundance

I'm listening to "Worthy is the Lamb" from Handel's Messiah. It's lovely to listen to this and nothing else. The house is still because everyone else is off slaying dragons today. Oldest son is working, middle and youngest sons are attending Bible class and Dad is teaching. Today is one of Dad's unpaid days off from work so he's free to correct math papers at school before he teaches class; then the afternoon is at his disposal.

Thinking about these free days that my husband suddenly has, I asked him last night if he feels laid off when he has to spend an unpaid day away from work. His response was a typical, "I don't know." That response tells me that he hasn't thought about it much, and instead he's putting one foot in front of the other until there's a clear change in plans. That is also typical of him. He gets things done and he doesn't spend too much time trying to figure out his emotions. Hmm...I might try that one of these days.

Whenever I think about how much more emotional I am than my husband, and how much time I spend analyzing my feelings, I remember Shelly Long in the long running t.v. show Cheers. She tried to justify her obsessive analysis of emotions by telling her boyfriend Sam that "the unexamined life was not worth living." Since she played a literate, pretentiously erudite woman, her application of this quote to her somewhat hapless life is hysterical and reminds me not to take every darn thing about myself so seriously.

Serious or silly, anxious or complacent, we'll muddle through today and wait on God for the future. If it doesn't rain today we'll work on planter boxes this afternoon, and I'll make pizza for lunch. Most of all, we'll try to remember that abundance is not just found in material things.