Note: I originally published this for just a few minutes right after I wrote it, but then I took it down and sent it in email to select group of my closest friends and confidants. I have decided to go ahead and make it public now.
I can’t speak as to how legally defensible it is, and judging by the recent treatment of the members of the FLDS church, it isn’t, but I would like to claim for myself, and for others who choose it, the right to opt out.
I’ve been pounding through something of a tandem realization together with the sister of my soul recently. We have noticed that we each tend to divide the events and situations of our lives into “life” and “stuff that disrupts life.” I couldn’t even count up for you the number of times that I have lamented “it’s so unfair that as soon as I hit my stride, something knocks me off again!!!”
We have this idea that ‘real life’ are those quiet moments wherein our houses are humming, the laundry’s all done (very, very brief moments…), and we’re quietly having our well-planned out, perfectly taught Family Home Evening lesson that neatly ties up the week’s daily family scripture study before getting the kids to bed not just on time but early for what will make for the 8th day straight. I don’t know about everyone else, but those brief moments are just those–BRIEF moments.
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