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MOTHER – IN – LAWS: GODS OWN SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT
‘ He that findeth a wife findeth a good thing’ so the good book goes.
Now wait a minute. Did you read the small print? With it, you get hitched up to a wild horde of uncles and aunts, cousins and nieces and the crème de la crème Mother –in –laws.
Now there are two types of men in this world. One, The Breezy types, who when put in a situation like standing in the path of a charging rhino, look at it squarely in the eye till the rhino wilts, looks sideways and feels miserable about charging and starts making circles on the ground with its toe. The other type of men, The Philosophical type, who when put in the same sit, side step deftly and pick a direction 90 degrees removed from the rhinos and keep running till they reach the Mexican border. I fall specifically in the latter category.
Yes there are men of the former type. Now don’t shake your head and give me the brusheroo. OK to name a few, Solomon, Chengis khan, and our very own Henry the Eighth, all of whom, when bored of whatever they were doing, went out and got another wife, and a charging rhino in tow.
After the initial running in period of your marriage, your wife starts looking at you sideways, fixes her gaze at about three inches south of your forehead, and tells you not to make that abominable sound, like a denizen of untamed Africa, while eating, and as you are trying to dart a repartee, she tells you to stop talking with food in your mouth, and as you try to tell her (with food still in your mouth!) about the banality of her observations, out come this ominous words… “ My mom was right .you are an insensitive man!” I say, when all the time you were thinking that the late night chats with her mom was getting her(the wife ,not the mom in law) to be more wise, the iron hand neath the velvet glove was glaringly shocking. Come come now all you guys, now don’t you say you have never heard those words before.
When God made mother in laws, He had only one thing in mind-concrete exterior, and a stare that would make two McDonalds-regular-burger-sized holes in the front of your T-shirt. From buying a fridge to buying a hatpin to planning a baby, the mom in laws ethereal presence is always felt.
And when it comes to Christian issues, all moms in laws are pucca Christians, educated at the feet of Gamaliel so to speak and placing that same feet in the seat of the pants of anyone who dare defy their standing on any issues.
But when the love nest rocks with the sickness of the child, an accident, an incident, or a plain jerk of faith, thank God for godly mom in laws. They are always there. The other day mine told me this “ God loves you” and gave me 95 reasons why that was not possible humanly. But still, in adversity, or in your down times, it’s the Christian mom in-laws that would make your gaze turn (sometimes with sheer brute force) towards the Only LIGHT there is.
So in all my years of marriage, I have been beaten into the mold of right thinking and putting the family first .So next time you guys feel like you are Apollo in looks, Achilles in aim, Sisyphus in knowledge, and Icarus in achievement, you probably have a multiple personality disorder. You need to be arrested into marriage and referred to mother in laws … Gods own special victims unit.
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I think it goes both ways too. My husband's mother had a few run-ins with me. It is the love of God that keeps us all sane, otherwise someone would have been in a vice. Praise him patience!
oops- praise him for patience!
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