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kevin22
(Kevin Murphy) 46M
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1/11/2010 9:48 am
My Wonderful Day Part 2

My Wonderful Day (Part Two) by Barbara Rainey Colossians 3:12,13
Put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility...bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone.

At around midnight Dennis finished his work and came upstairs to help me pack. As he pulled a suit from the closet, he made one of those classic male observations about organization: "You know, Honey, you could avoid all of this last-minute stuff if you'd just do a little planning ahead." I felt the anger rise to the top of my scalp. But I bit my lip, knowing he was trying to be helpful.
We finally fell into bed at 2:00 A.M., only to rise again at 5:30 A.M. I was so tired I could barely function. As we drove to the airport, Dennis again tried to give me some helpful pointers:
"You try to accomplish too much before we leave on these trips. If you'd just learn to prioritize and do the essential things, this could be a lot easier on everybody, particularly you."
That did it. "Priorities! How do you prioritize a busted washer and a sick ? How am I supposed to prioritize workmen who keep the house in a state of total disaster all day before I'm leaving? Here I try to get everything right so we don't have to come home to chaos, and you talk about setting priorities!"
Dennis was stunned. His dependable, loving, normally unflappable wife had flipped! The rest of the trip was spent in near silence.
At that point we had a choice: We could resolve our conflict and save the trip, or we could let our anger simmer.
So after we had arrived and unpacked, I told Dennis I was sorry for getting angry. And he hugged me and said, "Honey, I'm sorry I said what I said. I wasn't being very sensitive. You do a great job of keeping everything straight and getting us ready. I hate it when we're at odds with each other."

Prayer:

That God would give you the determination to not let your anger simmer and ruin your oneness.

Discuss: Do you have any unresolved conflicts in your marriage right now? If you do, what are you going to do about them?



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