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Today is my wedding anniversary – 36 years.   We will celebrate with the kids Wednesday night, grilling juicy Lucy’s.   Can’t wait! I don’t know about you, but every year when my wedding anniversary comes up, it’s not really the wedding day I remember, but the marriage - the years it took us to get “here”.   “Here” being the operative word.     I don’t want you to think we have “arrived” when I say, “here”.   Here is a place I am okay with, in fact, I love.   Here is all the changes our relationship has gone through – some good, some bad – but all have brought us “here”.   Here is not the culmination of all our days, but the journey.   Does that make sense?     And what a journey we have had!   I am sure you have had one too.   Every marriage is a journey – a learning experience of sorts, don’t you think?         Last weekend , God showed me an excellent “example” to learn (...

Okay, I know you all know the story and have heard it a million times.  I’m talking about the story of Mary and Martha – Martha is the busy one and Mary is the one who just wants to sit and listen to Jesus.  I have been studying this story in my Wednesday Women’s class and it got me to thinking.  Wait, maybe you don’t know it – let’s recite it here again.      From Luke 10:                 As Jesus and His disciples were on their way, He came to a village where a                woman named Martha opened her home to Him.   She had a sister called Mary,                who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what He said.    But Martha was           ...