I don’t know if you read comments that people post on blogs, but it can be fun and interesting.
I want to share the comment that Coupon Queen posted on my post from yesterday:
I loved you before you & our son got married as we seemed to click from day one. When the harder times came, God used them to show me that real love doesn’t stop when things are tough but it sees us through the tough times. As I taught my kids, I might get aggravated with one of you, but my love will never be withheld because of that. If I can’t love when things are tough, it’s not real love at all. My love for all of my children – the 2 boys as well as their wives – is unconditional and will continue on and on. Love you bunches, girl.
Yeah. For a fairly non-emotional gal, I’ll admit that I cried when I read it.
Coupon Queen has been the ultimate Titus woman.
Not familiar with the verses from the Bible? Allow me to share:
Titus 2:3-5
3Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. 4Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, 5to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.
Coupon Queen and I have had our issues over the years. I believe the bulk of the blame lies in my half of the court. And yet, she and Grand Pooba have always been there to welcome me back in the loving folds of their arms.
This is something I have often rejected…too scared, I suspect, that it would fade. In some weird way, I wonder if I’ve subconsciously been testing them. You’d think, after 20+ years, I would have figured out that they are here to stay.
For a teacher, I sure am a slow learner, eh?
Anyhoo, Coupon Queen and I had a really long talk today. Some of it was deep. Some of it was about simple every day stuff.
It was a conversation any “normal” girl would have with her “normal” mom.
Imagine that.
I might actually be normal, in my warped kind of way.
Her’s is the example I want to emulate…focused on the Lord and service to Him by loving, unconditionally, those around her.
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