I went grocery shopping today and then came home to put it all away, roast veggies, pickle onions, make a vegetable soup, and assemble some bagel sandwiches for dinner. Abe’s Aunt Andrea came over for dinner because he was helping her with her new phone. It ended up taking him five hours to set up her phone and even then there were still more pictures to download, but by then we had to call it a night.
We had a really pleasant time and all of the kids adore Andrea. But after they went to bed Andrea announced that she really wanted to discuss something important with us. At that point, she sat down and informed us that Jesus was coming again by roughly 2060 and that it was so important for us to prepare ourselves.
That did not go over too well with me.
By the end of the night I think we were all in a state of mild shock from the conversation. Abe ended with a wonderful scripture from Paul on how everything will vanish except for love. And at the end of the day, that is how I feel. Nothing matters, really, except for love. I am so grateful for my wise, kind, incredible husband, my good, kind, intelligent mother, my darling children, and the best life I could ever imagine for myself. Every day I wake up and want to pinch myself that this is really my life. It’s an existence filled to the brim with family, with love, with abundance, with things that make me happy every day.
And at the end of the day, I’m grateful for Abe’s Aunt Andrea too. The world is full of every type of person, and she is a colorful, beautiful, interesting, talented person. Even though I deeply disagree with her on everything related to the Church, I think her faith gives her a lot of buoyancy, cheer, and zest for life, and those things help her make the world a better place.