Rod & Beckie…”We’re on different pages!”
You would think since we are going on 22 years of marriage that Beckie and I would be great about living together in unity. Living with me…with my cranky, selfish attitudes flaring up when I’m tired, edgy and loaded with burdens..is not cake walk.
Beckie recently said to me…”We are just on different pages.” I normally mouth off with some sassy answer, but this time I replied; “Different pages - same chapter - same book - same author!” How profound that such words would come from my lips. Beckie smiled. Rather than another little bantering dispute, the Lord spoke to us through my response.
Have you ever felt like you and your spouse were on “different pages?”
My definition of Different Pages: Not seeing eye to eye - not in alignment - having differing goals, perspectives, expectations, agendas - going in opposite directions - just being plain ‘ole DIFFERENT!
You may feel like you and your spouse are two different people, from different planets with different desires, goals and dreams - as if you are on different pages. May I encourage you:
• You are different. You already know that!
• But whom God joined together, let no one separate! The same writer is authoring both your lives!
• God is writing a chapter weaving your distinct personalities and lives!
• Your marriage is part of One Book - to discover, develop and embody His Word through your oneness!
May Ruth’s words be our marital covenant for life:
“Entreat me not to leave you, or to turn back from following after you; For wherever you go, I will go; and wherever you lodge, I will lodge; Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. Where you die, I will die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.”