The life of a wife,mother and Pastor's wife in the PC(USA) church.

Friday, September 30, 2011

My Perfect Self or The Perfect Pastor's Wife

Our church ladies have been doing a Bible study on the book "Grace for the Good Girl" by Emily Freeman. One thing we did at our first meeting was to write a description of our "perfect selves". If we could have and meet every expectation or goal what would that look like? I thought I'd share mine.
My Perfect Self I'm a size 8 , no make that a size 10 (I'm really tall) and I don't want to be TOO skinny. I thrive on 5 hours of sleep each night and awaken delightfully charming after sleeping in my perfectly color coordinated bed, perched high atop 7 throw pillows (that I made myself). I spend 1 hour studying the Bible and praying for others before awakening my children and serving them a hot, from scratch breakfast every morning (with cloth napkins of course). I grown my own organic vegetables, which I can , I haven’t had a diet Coke in 5 years. There are never dirty dishes in my sink and my laundry is folded the second the dryer beeps. I help the needy and often roam around looking for homeless people to invite to dinner. I make lovely care packages for college students all from my giant stockpile of items that I bought on sale...with a double coupon. I knit for orphans in Bulgaria, I call lonely widows on the phone and witness to the mail man daily. I teach my baby sign language, and make all my own clothes. I delight in pre treating laundry, cleaning up fur balls and balancing the checkbook. I can quote whole chapters of the Bible from memory and never need a song book as I know them all by heart. I make lovely, romantic dinners for my husband 5 nights a week after the children go to bed. I mow the lawn, change the oil and resided the house, not because I had to but because I like too. I floss after every meal. There are never month old McDonald's french fries on the floor of my minivan. I'm such a good person and wonderful Christian that I don't really need God's help, but he always needs mine.

2 comments:

Marisa said...

OMW that is GREAT! ha ha! Sooo many of mine would be the same! The month old french fry comment was just awesome! ha ha! It happens what can I say!! ha ha!

Anonymous said...

I always enjoy a good tongue and cheek entry. Keep on writing.