Feb. 1, 2009 - Parasites
Day 23 - This is the chapter that the movie Fireproof talks about. They define parasites as "anything that latches onto you or your partner and sucks the life out of your marriage". They also go on to say that most come in the form of addictions. So what is it that sucks the life out of my marriage. What has more control over me than I do of it? Hmmm... What are the parasites that suck the life out of my relationship with GOD? Do kids qualify? ;op Seriously though, it's tough to get a minute alone with Eddie between the girls and a toddler. There's always somebody wanting something. We have tried to up our number of date nights by having some "in-house" dates, but it's still tough. The girls had a great idea of creating "Oakwood". This is their version of a movie theater (like Raleighwood). They put blankets up over the posts of our bed, come and take our orders and deliver us the food and drinks. This is great, except that they come in many times ;o). Sometimes we run right up the street after the Boogs has gone to bed. This works better, but we feel comfortable going only so far and for so long. I don't know how others do it. Paying for someone to come over is just ridiculously expensive for us. We've tried to no avail to get couples to switch off. I guess my to-do list qualifies as a parasite. It's never-ending but ever-growing. The LORD is slowly breaking me of the hold of it with my health issues. Show me what to do and not do, LORD. It's hard for me to figure it out.
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