Hello Again Friends!
How did Valentine's Day go? I hope our intimacy panel last time was helpful, I know I always love hearing from our wonderful mentor moms!
As I was thinking about last MOPs Tuesday and the mentor panel and just marriage in general, I started to realize how the process really is like a roller coaster...now stay with me here...
Yes yes it has its ups and downs and fast times and slow times and unexpected curves and stomach turning drops but that's actually not the metaphor I am going for...
Marriage is a roller coaster. First, we spend time standing in the line watching others go on the ride before us, (parents, grandparents, friends, siblings, etc...) and as we watch we have moments of feeling excited and moments of feeling scared, for it to be our turn. There are many that decide to turn back and never ride the roller coaster, there are others that jump on to it without adequate planning or even get on board with someone they barely know. And there is a good chunk of us who thought we knew who we were gonna get on board with only to discover they didn't fit in line with us so well.
When we did find our perfect seat mate, we boarded the coaster (some of us elegantly and prepared, some of us skipped to the coaster happy it was finally our turn, and some of us just kinda tripped on edge and fell on to the ride) but regardless how, once we got on, we eventually (some of us faster than others) realized that being on the coaster wasn't exactly what it looked like from the line...This may not be the perfect ride we paid for...wait a minute!
Fortunately, the advantage to this roller coaster is that the entire time you are on it, you can see the people in the cars in front of you (the ones who know what kinds of drops and turns are coming) and you can even communicate with them about what to expect. You can also see the cars behind you, the new couples excited to start their journey but unsure what to expect.
We are all heading to the end of the ride but no one on the track knows when or how we will get there, and sadly some get off the ride before they get to see how it will end... I have moments of wanting to get off the roller coaster....I also have a lot more often moments of wishing I could just stop the ride and soak in the goodness of it all! In the short (nearly 5 years) my husband and I have been married we have had some crazy drops and unexpected turns but that is when I look up from my seat and look ahead to the couples who have been there and experienced this part of the ride.
At MOPs we have such a wonderful resources of mentor moms at our tables and as you saw last week they are so full of good practical wisdom because they have been in our shoes, fought to stay on the ride, and know how to hold on! I want to extend an extra special thank you to our mentor moms for being so brave last week and sharing a bit of their wisdom with us! I also want to encourage any of you who are struggling on your ride right now or need some extra guidance or want some extra prayer, to reach out. Reach out to your mentor mom, reach out to your table/DGL for support, and if you want even reach out to the group by filling out one of our prayer request cards so those on steering can pray for you!
We have mommas in all stages of the ride in our community and there is so much we can learn from each other and support each other through. Lets strive to be Proverbs 31 women and wives, and help each other through the process so that none of us get sick on the ride =D
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Please join us tomorrow as we discuss safety with our kids and hear from one of our very own Mops Mommas.
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