I’m guest posting over at Our Daily Bread’s blog, God Hears Her.
Some days, I’m hard to live with.
Ask my husband, David. God bless him.
Maybe you are too?
David is a carefree spirit whose motto in college was, If I can crawl over it, I can sleep on it. He eats whatever I cook and seldom notices piles of laundry or dirty dishes. If an opportunity for fun or adventure presents itself, he’s all in. He’ll figure out the details later. He’ll abandon even the best laid plans to help someone in need—especially children and the elderly.
I’m the exact opposite. I emerged from the womb with a desire to organize, control, and direct. As soon as I could read, I arranged my Little Golden Books in alphabetical order. My stuffed animals stood in line on my bookcase according to height. I preferred (yes, past tense) projects and plans over people.
In adulthood, structure helped me adapt to the chaos of new motherhood. No napping in the car for my babies. They had to be nestled into their cribs at 10 am and 1 pm. I wasn’t totally rigid. I was spiritually mature enough to recognize that if nap time conflicted with Sunday church, naptime could wait. But I admit, even then I chafed.
My gift of organization and love of structure helped our home, and later our homeschooling, run smoothly. One daughter, a firstborn like me, thrived. The second, a free-spirited people-person like my husband, survived. Now a mother herself, she’s striking her own balance between spontaneity and structure. Enough structure to keep her kids alive. Enough spontaneity to make it fun.
Now that our girls are out of our house, my husband is the sole beneficiary of my gifts. Since I love to plan my free time, I assume he’ll appreciate helpful suggestions for how to spend his Saturday. I share ideas for how we should spend our time, money, or energy. But sometimes I forget he has ideas, too.
Most of the time, he overlooks my bossiness. In my enthusiasm, I can get a little . . . overbearing. Every once and a while, though, I cross a line . . . .
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