The Case of the Invisible Laundry Basket

I wonder whether this happens to your family or not but it does to mine. Normally after I put the laundry in the washing machine, I would place the laundry basket at the side of the stairs ..reminding that whosoever is going upstairs to bring it up. But what usually happens is that my hubby n kids would walk right by it and head upstairs without bringing it along. It really vexed me so I decided to place it right smack in the middle of the stairs. But it didn't work either. They would walk around it and be completely oblivious to it.

Sometimes I think we are like that when it comes to obeying God's word. He spelled out the instructions/commandments clearly in the Bible but we either fail to see it or we navigate around it .. not paying heed to His word for one reason or another.

We know that He said “ Do not let the sun set on your anger.” yet many a times in marriage this happens. This allows the devil to have a foothold in our lives. And then we wonder why marriages are not as good as it should be. God also says that we should esteem and look upon and be concerned for not our own interests but also the interests of others. Yet we find that in some marriages, one of the partners expect to have his needs and wants met at the expense of another. The wife or the husband becomes a tool to be used instead of someone to be cherished and loved.

The Word of God is alive, a double edged sword, filled with heavenly wisdom and useful for righteous living in any situation. Let not His word be like the invisible laundry basket where it can be easily missed eventho it is obviously infront of us.

Marriage takes effort. It becomes less effort when we obey His word together. We are blessed to celebrate our 17th wedding anniversary recently. God has taught us many things about each other and how to dance the marriage waltz without stepping on each others' toes too much.

We wanted to have dinner at Magenta but they had a private function so we adjourned to Magna Carta. We still had a good dinner . Heather was busy trying out her phototaking skills.