Community Property

As I lie here in bed flipping channels and wrestling with my feelings of neglect or jealousy …or possibly envy...I’m not sure which, my wife scurries about cooking green beans for some funeral meal. She is always on some “angel watch” in the middle of the night, serving on team, teaching CCD, holding adult bible study, or some other corporal work of mercy. Where does she find the energy?

I wonder if the credit and/or grace gained by performing these works could be considered “community property”.
Boy! That would be a good deal…being swept into "office" on my spouse’s coat tails. I could really get into that. I need to get to work on my own campaign.

What’s up with this daily struggle between good and evil? My concupiscence is such a plague. My soul yearns for the world promised by Jesus but my body’s appetite is for the pleasures of this world.

The smell of bacon and onions cooking in the green beans brings me back to my senses…I turn off the TV and pray.


Lord Jesus,
Thank you for a wife who keeps pointing me toward You.
Lord, help me turn away from my dissolute ways.
And please, Lord, give me the energy to do Your will, not mine.

Amen



3/16/2008