I feel like I’ve been sojourning in a strange land and have finally returned home. It’s been a bit more than a year since I took my sabbatical, and yet you girls have made me feel like I never left.
This past seventeen months has been a time of growth and healing for me and my family. I’m looking forward to sharing what I’ve learned with all of you. I think the best way to do that will be through my resumed duty of moderating the Topic of the Week. My sister, Veronica, has, from what I’ve heard, been doing a great job in my absence, but when she heard how eager I was to take my old place again as TOTW facilitator, she graciously agreed to step aside.
Most of you know I’ve been involved in intensive therapy and counseling along with my family. One of the most important things I’ve learned is that I must be COMPLETELY HONEST with those around me. So this is our TOTW— Total Honesty.
It’s difficult to be honest and vulnerable with other people, even the ones we love. But I’ve learned that this is the ONLY way to truly break the cycle of dysfunction and strife.
So let’s practice this week, shall we? I’d like each of you to share with us one deeply personal thing that you’ve never shared before. As we bare our hearts to each other, grace and friendship will be released, and we’ll be closer than ever. With that in mind, here is my confession. I give it to you with trembling fingers and a full heart:
I HATE to cook. In fact, sometimes when it’s been a really bad day, I call my husband and ask him to stop at McDonald’s on the way home from work. I can down a Big Mac in under two minutes, and we have a bin of Happy Meal toys that we stash in the basement when company comes over.
Whew! It’s great to have that out in the open at last! See, honesty isn’t so hard. What about you? Get that secret off your chest. And remember, this is for posterity, so…be honest.
Peace to you all,
Rosalyn Ebberly
SAHM I Am Loop Moderator
“The wise woman builds her house, but the foolish tears it down with her own hands.” Proverbs 14:1 (NASB)
| From: | Zelia Muzuwa <[email protected]> |
| To: | “Green Eggs and Ham” |
| Subject: | She hates to cook???? |
THAT’S her big confession? After all the pomposity, after all the “I’m so much better than you, you poor things, why can’t you be more like me…ah, but you can’t and never will, you LOSERS”…after waging a war on Christmas because retailers weren’t saying the greeting SHE thought was most correct…after being so paranoid about her husband that she hired a detective to spy on him…after her kids were freaking out and drawing pictures of themselves in COFFINS…
She expects us to be impressed that she’s confessed to a lack of interest in the culinary arts???
Air. I need air. I’m hyperventilating. Her first day back, and I’m already developing a nervous tic. At this rate, we’ll ALL need intensive therapy.
Z
| From: | Dulcie Huckleberry <[email protected]> |
| To: | “Green Eggs and Ham” |
| Subject: | Re: She hates to cook???? |
How do you really feel, Ham? Honestly. Share it on the loop, dear one. You know it’s for posterity. The emotional health of your children hangs in the balance.
Dulcie
| From: | Zelia Muzuwa <[email protected]> |
| To: | “Green Eggs and Ham” |
| Subject: | Re: She hates to cook???? |
Don’t tempt me.
Z
| From: | P. Lorimer <[email protected]> |
| To: | “Green Eggs and Ham” |
| Subject: | Re: She hates to cook???? |
Poor Zelia, it sounds as if you may have some unforgiveness toward her. Are you certain you don’t need to confess it on the loop? It will do you much good.
Teasing,
Phyllis
| From: | Zelia Muzuwa <[email protected]> |
| To: | “Green Eggs and Ham” |
| Subject: | Re: She hates to cook???? |
Phyllis, darling, don’t you have a graduate class to study for? Something along the lines of “Dripping Faucets: A Survey of the Most Irritating Women of Western Civilization”? You could write a paper on our loop moderator.
Besides, the TOTW was about honesty, not forgiveness. I’ve never struggled with being honest.
Z
| From: | Dulcie Huckleberry <[email protected]> |
| To: | “Green Eggs and Ham” |
| Subject: | Re: She hates to cook???? |
Betcha five bucks that forgiveness is next week’s topic.
Dulcie
| From: | P. Lorimer <[email protected]> |
| To: | “Green Eggs and Ham” |
| Subject: | Re: She hates to cook???? |
Dulcie,
I’ll see your five and raise you one.
Phyllis
| From: | Zelia Muzuwa <[email protected]> |
| To: | “Green Eggs and Ham” |
| Subject: | Re: She hates to cook???? |
Aaaarrrgghhh!!! You’re a PASTOR’S WIFE! You don’t make bets! And besides, you did it wrong. If you think Dulcie’s bet is right, why would you raise it? Oh, never mind… I have to go pick up my children from school. Why they have to schedule school all the way into June boggles the mind.
Z
| From: | P. Lorimer <[email protected]> |
