The interesting interpretation has a story which I found the verse to have particular interest.
I would always use the fifty cent words with my wife. One I have an extensive vocabulary, because I read plenty. I read, and I read, and I read. I would most likely read a novel a month. Plus magazines, newspaper, and other types of literature.
I remember using a word on my wife, and she said you don't even know how to spell it. I said spelling was never my strong point. She said if you can't spell it then you shouldn't use it. I threw up my hands and said, whatever!
She saw a word. She said. Oh my here is a big word that is perfect for you to me. My wife vexes me. I said you better believe it. That was in our first year of marriage. She asked if I knew what it meant. I said yes. It means ANNOY.
Interesting you used the word perfect to have an obsolete definition for mature. A non obsolete definition is legally valid. Another obsolete definition of perfect is SANE.
How do you keep your sanity through all this? Today was a harsh ride at work. To much thought. I call my Mother. It is going well, but then she starts yelling at me that this seperation is hurting her too because she didn't get to see her grandkids all summer.
Well it is all a crock of boogies too. You see my brothers kid is in from out of state for the whole summer. She favors him and always has. So she has been out showing him a good time all summer. She has invited me and the kids to a few things, but it usually involves her church. I do not have any interest in going to her church. To me it is a bunch of Christian chaos.
Today she invited me to her church. I said Mom I have to go to Mass. It is a holy day of obligation, the feast of the assumption. She said I will be in church. I said stop it, I don't want to get into the Catholic ways with you.
Then she started screaming at me. You know I'm giving you the tools to go to the outreach programs at my church and you don't want to use them. They are restoring marriages all the time. How is your Catholic church doing? Did it save you marriage or did it put you into seperation.
I kept saying. Stop it. Please. Don't. I don't want to discuss these issues with you. I just want you to support me like a Mother would support a son in crisis. You and I do not see eye to eye about religion. But yesterday you even defended me when someone was bashing Catholism to you. You said there are Catholic Christian that will blow you away when it comes to the bible, theology, and what the Church is and isn't. There are many Catholics that are emmersified in the bible and in their faith. My son is one of them.
She started screaming at me again, I asked her to please stop screaming at me, and then she hung up. Some Christian she is...
So I don't get it. Was she bashing the Catholic thing? Was she feeling quilty about something? In my opinion it was my Mother that caused the divorce between my Father and her. Was she just trying to justify her actions about not seeing my children? I really wanted to throw it in her face about the favoritism towards my brothers child, but I never do. Now my wife on the other hand, this would instill a chief arguement between us. I always agreed with my wife on that issue though. However it always seemed like my wife was taking those issues out on me.
I went to Mass. It was a wonderful Mass. There is a young priest that gave the homily. He was just ordained recently. He is a very good speaker, and can deliver a message well. He spoke about how Mary does not have any relics, no tomb, no body. She was assummed into heaven. Even the early Church fathers believed in wrote about this around 100 AD. The arguement that there is nothing recorded in the gospels.
Upon leaving the Church, I shook his hand. I said you make a good arguement. However your arguement would be stronger if you would include the Enoch went up. He walked with the Lord and vanished. No body. He like that, and said that is so true. I said Elijah, he went up in a whirlwind. So maybe his arguement will become more perfect.
I also talked with my Priest upon leaving. I told him about the Proverbs 21:19 verse. I said I'm in the wilderness Father. He laughed and said he is praying for me. What a guy! I liked him since the first day he came and gave his first homily. He is into sports, hunting, and movies. He even gave a homily once using the movie Star Wars.
Anyway.... Amy. I am going dark on her. It is getting dark right now too. The thing that is aggrivating me is the fact that my kids didn't call. I don't want to break the darkness and ask how are the kids?
Then I think in the back of my mind she is going to throw it in my face that I don't care about the kids. I didn't even ask about them.
Your right Amy. I felt like I was going around the mountain after lunch today. Should I text and ask about the kids. No. Don't let her be. Leave her alone. Let her burn out.
I also asked my Priest about standing in the gap. Because she isn't even going to Church. We Catholics have a strict guideline about the moral obligation of attending Church every Sunday, and every holy day of obligation. If you miss it is considered a mortal sin. He said yes your holiness will make her holy.
I told you Amy I was deeply religous. I have and done countless hours of holy. Which means I go to Church on off times and sit with the blessed sacrament for an hour. I have had visions in Church. of Jerusalem and the holy lands during the holy hours.
I do believe one day the Lord asked me to become a stigmata, and I felt the thorns piercing my heart. I said not yet Lord, not yet. I'm not ready...
I'm not sure why he wants me to stand trail for the marriage. He knows how much I love him. He knows how much I love her. He knows how much I love my kids. He knows how much I have been asking for years for her heart to soften and not be so quarrelsome and vexatious.
