Pursuing Holiness

There’s currently only one writer for this blog, but I titled the page “About Us” because so much of what I write here includes my family. The Man Of The House (The Man, or sometimes, the MOTH, and sometimes with a ™ to show that he is amazingly uniquely one-of-a-kind and he’s mine, all mine!!! Well, and God’s. Okay, he’s God’s, all God’s, and God is good enough to share The Man with me. But I’m mighty possessive, let me tell you. The same for The Daughter Of The House, known as The Daughter or the DOTH. We started with the “woman of the house, man of the house,” after we saw The Quiet Man for the dozenth time. It’s one of our favorite movies, and when John Wayne gets up and demands, “Woman of the house! Fix me some tay (tea)!” we both have to laugh. The Man is never demanding, but he does call me Woman of the House. We love to watch movies and often make a game of talking in movie lines.

The Man is amazing. He dropped out of high school in his sophomore year, soon joined the Navy, got a GED, and after he got out of the Navy, worked his way up from a supply driver to a licensed electrician. In his thirties, he finally got to go to college - night school - and got an electrical/electronic engineering degree. He received Chancellor’s Honors and had a disgustingly high GPA - especially for a man who did not let his family, employer, or church down while he was working his butt off in night school. He provides for and leads our family - he is a wonderful man, but above all a Christian man, who takes his roles as husband and father very seriously. He is amazing, and I’m grateful every day for him.

The Daughter is amazing. She started homeschooling for the eighth grade in 2004, and is now testing post-high school for everything but math and science, where she is far above her grade level. Her maturity level and self-motivation just knock my socks off. I never have to nag her to do school; she gets herself up and does it on her own, a skill I didn’t master until college. She is very talented - she plays guitar, drums, piano, and sings. She’ll be performing with a local opera company this year, and her voice teacher expects her to do very well. Spiritually she has matured a great deal in the last few years, and has sometimes set the example for me, and called me on a few issues when I needed it. I don’t deserve a child like this, and I’m grateful every day for her.

I’m a quite boring middle-aged woman; reformed charismatic, politically conservative, pro-war when we have been attacked (as we were in 1979 and regularly since then). I have a small web dev company - and by small, I mean really small. Me and two others. But I enjoy the work, and I have a very nice home office. God has done a great deal in my life in the last 17 years, as I have written about in some detail here. The disciple I have most in common with is Peter - impulsive, loudmouthed, and frequently foolish. But I have hope when I read his later writings - gentle, calm, humble and kind; settled in his relationship with his Savior. In my pursuit of holiness, I think of Peter when he was older as a wonderful example of what God can do with someone like me.