The summer is over half over which really isn’t an issue for us since we usually don’t do much for the summer anyway. Our vacation’s usually happen during the quiet times of the year when kids are in school. We are looking forward to our short trip to California next month. Only 5 nights away, but at least it is something and we get to see our favourite state. We finally 
managed to get the hot tub up and running which is really nice. Even though it is hot outside right now, it is still nice to sit in our hot tub. We really missed it and it makes this place feel like home finally. We did help out our landlords by making the front yard look a little less like a rental, and so we tore down the front fence and replaced them with pyramid cedar’s. It was a lot of work, but I think it was worth it. Now we can sit in our front yard and be proud of what it looks like. We posted pictures of the process on facebook. We had a lot of help from my family which is nice. Even though we live in a rental place, we all still treat it as our own. We used to own a house, so I guess we just appreciate our living situation. Doug had a good interview at KalTire and he is waiting for a second interview. I had a second interview at a bookkeeping job that could give me some decent hours, so this next week might bring us some much needed good news in our job situation. Thankfully Doug enjoys his job at London Drugs, so if he has to stay there for now, that is fine too.
This last few weeks has brought a lot of controversy regarding the whole gay marriage thing. I guess I just don’t get it, what does it matter who gets married? If two people of the same sex want to get married, how does that effect us? I think people just don’t like change…I don’t get it though, we spend the first 18 years of our live going through oodles of change, so why are we so against it when we become adults? I wonder how society took to the change of allowing divorce as easily as it is today? How about black people being able to eat in the same restaurant as whites? I recall there being a lot of uproar about that particular change. 
Or even women having the right to vote…so much change, but in the end it was for the better. So I guess all my gay friends just have to wait it out a few more years and then the rest of the modern world will adjust to this bit of change too. I am grateful though that people stand up for their rights to live the same way as everyone else though. I believe that we all have the right to live the way we want too and as a Christian, should we not be even more tolerable of change and the differences in people?
I know that my views have changed as I have gotten older. I am way less judgemental of people. We all have our own life stories and this shapes who we are and we have to live within those parameters because that is all we know. If God chooses to change someone’s heart then that is up to God and them and we have to right to butt into their lives. Doug and I learned that early on in our married life…we tried to do things the “church” way and in the end Doug had a stroke we realized that we should have left well enough alone. As Christians we need to be way more tolerable of each other. We need to support people in who they are and just allow God to work in people’s lives the way he wants it to happen, not the way the “church” thinks it should happen. I am grateful for my relationship with God/Jesus and I will always cherish my friendship with him. I guess my walk is going to be different than other’s so I can’t judge others either when it comes to how they judge LOL. I think this type of thinking makes it very hard to find “Christian” friends, which I really do miss, but I guess no Christian friends is better than judgemental Christian friends who think we are less of a person because we don’t go to church or don’t believe the way the mainstream “Christians” think. We are grateful for my parents who do understand what we are going through in this matter… it seems they went through the same thing at our age with their age group. 
Who knew this was hereditary LOL. This is where we are glad we didn’t have kids though…who wants that for their kids? Who wants for their kids to learn how disappointing the “church family” can be when you are taught all your life that they are the ones that should support you… I guess that is yet another part of life that changes… learning about the sin in this world. I am not perfect (yes, I am admitting that), and I plan on learning for the rest of my life.
I want to live my life with my eyes wide open, to be accepting of people no matter what and to allow God to guide me in all areas of my life. I want to be accepting of change and how that will enhance our lives. So much has changed in our lives from when we first got married 24 years ago… some things were not for the best, but some things God has turned into positive things even though it wasn’t supposed to go that way in the first place. God blesses us no matter where we are and that is what I look towards… I want all of his blessings that he can pour on us… that is what I wish for.
