Wednesday nights are craft night

Well now... Steve and I have this new plan for Wednesday nights. Craft night. Do something you love to do night. His, is work on his photos with the goal of creating some amazing art piece. Mine is, well, ummm, if you know me at all, you know I don't DO crafts. Steve told me I said I would write. I don't remember saying that, but that is not the point.

Here is my new theory and practicum on marriage (watch out Love and Respect). We have trained many a short term missions teams around this statement regarding cultural differences: "Different doesn't mean wrong; just different. The goal is not to Americanize the foreign land, but to love the people." We've been married for over 30 years now, and at times Steve is just as strange to me as the weirdest country I have ever been in (I won't say which one that is). And, I am the same to him. I hate to admit it, but, yes, often I try to grace-en-ize him because I am not just different, but also right. Right?

So, when I said I DO, I entered a foreign land and even tho I've lived in it for many years, I still wasn't born here and there are things I will never understand. But, those things are not wrong, just different. And, if I really look, beautiful. I am learning to love the different and enjoy the journey. Same-ness is boring. Therefore, if you see us together and I have a puzzled expression on my face (sometimes it masks itself as anger), just know I am applying the cross cultural principle quoted above and trying to adjust my behavior accordingly. With the love of Jesus, of course.