My husband just retired in June of
2013. A few weeks later, we had a friend's 18 year old daughter move
in with us. Ahem. This was not the #1 plan for our retirement.
First you should know that we love this
girl. She is sweet and hard working. She is funny and kind. She is
also messy and forgetful and 18—every minute of every day. Enough said.
Life is not fair. It was not fair to
her, because she had to move in with two really boring “old”
people who are kind of OCD about nearly everything. It was not fair
to us; we had plans for travel and “things” after retirement.
But sometimes, life (and God) will send
you on a detour away from your carefully arranged plans. Then when
you have to make a choice, hopefully you make the right one. I don't
always get it right, but I decided a while ago that if I had to make
a hard choice between judgment and mercy, I would try to choose mercy
anytime it was possible.
People are not easy to work with, live
with, eat with, or argue with. I am not easy. My husband is less easy
than I am. (Left-brain people are hard for us right-brain people to
cope with.) Our 18-year-old -temporary-daughter is not easy.
Life as a human being and with other
human beings is often irritating, expensive and inconvenient.
Eating well is inconvenient too. It
costs more to buy healthier food and tastier food. It takes more time to research things and the good stores are always
further away than stores that don't sell healthy food. It just
takes longer and is much less
convenient to plan and cook real things that taste good than just
buying items
made up with chemicals and
pretend food.
But it is all worth
it!!! I am making a commitment to go for healthy and feeling good. I
want food that tastes good. It really helps me not to fall into the
I-pity-myself because I have to eat healthy when food is fresh and pleasing. Not falling into the pity myself mode, keeps me on track.
And I want to give
health (and mercy) to those I care about, whenever I possibly can.
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