Keeping a Sense of Humor

I read Proverbs 31 this morning, you know just to give me yet another standard in my life I can't live up to, and in it I found a "jewel" I had never gathered from it.

I always focused on how she seemed to be the perfect wife...industrious, noble, good to the needy and helpless, able to cook, sew, manage a house, sell at the market, create beauty, dressed in beautiful garments (which means she tried to look good for her husband, as well as dressing respectfully), buy and plant a garden to provide income for the home and still keep her husband happy...all of these things seem to make this idealized version of a wife and mother impossible to even try to attain, so generally I avoid that chapter in the Bible like the plague (kind of like Revelation because it scares me to death).

Segue to today and my story goes like this: I have been going through some medical stuff (teeth, blood pressure, etc.) that has left me feeling rundown, beat down, frustrated and overall a fairly unpleasant wife for a man that deserves so much better in my opinion. I never do my makeup, I am working and budgeting but not happily, and I spend far more time complaining then I do any uplifting. But today I caught a scripture that spoke to me.

Proverbs 31:25 "She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come."

And in a nutshell this is the woman I want to be, even if I can't be all those other things (because we know for sure I am not the cook in the house and Jason sews his own buttons poor thing). I want to be strong in and out for my husband. I want him to be able to lean on me and me on him when times get tough. I want to carry my self with dignity, which basically equates to being worthy of respect, or held in high esteem by others. And mostly I want to keep my sense of humor. I want to be able to laugh with him, smile no matter what because I know I am blessed. I am blessed to have him, to be walking this earth, to have a job, a home, a life that I can build around God and each other. This is what's important. Sure life will not always be easy but if I can remember this one scripture I know that much of the other will fall into place. I need to have more fun and be far less focused on the bad, even if it is me feeling physically bad for an extended period of time.

And quite possibly the old adage is true "laughter is the best medicine" and it can help whatever ails me, whether it is physical sickness, frustration, fear or any of the many emotions I feel in a day!