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Out To Pastor
Every once in a while, I hear or see something that reminds me of my father. He’s been gone for over 15 years, but his memory is still fresh in my mind.
His most famous saying, that I remember, was, “You break it, you fix it.”
I have been married to The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage for over 53 years, and that is one of her savings. “If you break it, you have to fix it.”
The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage can fix anything and everything.
I remember several years ago, the front bumper of my truck was loose. I think one of the bolts had broken, and I didn’t quite know what to do. I casually mentioned to her that the front bumper of my truck was broken.
That’s all I had to do, and she was out there within 30 minutes, fixing it. I was stunned because I didn’t think it was fixable. But she took a big paperclip and put it in the place where the bolt had been broken. It was fixed. It’s been fixed for over five years now.
There is nothing that I cannot break and have broken down through the years.
That’s why The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage and yours truly have a wonderful marriage. We are partners in the strictest sense of the word. I don’t do what she can do, and she surely doesn’t do what I can do.
She knows all the building stores in the area. I’m not even sure of the names of these stores, but she knows them and even knows the people who work there. This is only second to the thrift stores in the area.
Last week we were doing something across town, and she mentioned that she needed to stop at one of those building stores to get something for a project she was working on. Of course, I agreed.
But as we were walking around, I noticed that she knew everybody, and everybody knew her. She knew exactly where everything in that store was.
A customer happened to stop her and asked if she knew where a certain gadget was. The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage told her exactly where to go and recommended a certain brand of that gadget.
It boils down to this: I can break anything, she can fix anything, and I can pay the bill. What more do you need for life to be happy?
After 53 years of marriage, we have come to an understanding of our position. When anything is broken, I’m not allowed to touch it. That is the responsibility of the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage. We accept our situation and respect each other’s strengths and weaknesses.
The motto in our house is simply this: “I break it, she fixes it.”
I thought about a Bible verse, James 1:5-6, “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.”
I do not base my life on my wisdom, rather on God’s wisdom that He gives abundantly to all who believe in Him.
