We have been married 5 whole years! We celebrated last week by travelling to Iron Mountain, MI to golf at Timberstone. It's one of Jack's favorite places but I'd never been there. My game was not pretty but the course was gorgeous. It was a good mini vacation.
Our next venture was a bit more stressful. We traded in my dear baby truck that I love. I know I'm not supposed to love inanimate objects. It's unspiritual and immature. But there it is, I loved it. I owned it for 13 years and was always happy to see it waiting for me. But the poor thing needed something fixed almost monthly, and the most recent problems were promising to be quite expensive. So we felt it was time. Thankfully we were able to get enough for it, even with its problems, that we didn't have to make a "clunker" deal. We were able to find a nice used vehicle that we both like, and hopefully my old baby will live to drive another day with someone who knows how to care for the elderly.
On to less material thoughts. One of my dear friends has a print of the Serenity Prayer in her bathroom so whenever I'm in there I read it (it's just hanging in the right spot). There is a line that always jumps out at me: "accepting hardship as the pathway to peace." Not peace despite the hardship, or in the midst of it. Hardship is how you get there. Well, that's no fun at all. How inconvenient! I asked a couple friends about this and their responses can be summarized as, "well, of course." So now my job is to study what the Bible has to say about peace and see what I need to learn. Maybe I can find a loophole? Kidding. I usually have more questions than answers, but that is okay.
