what's in a vow?
everyone must be feeling the blogger blues. no one's writing much lately, maybe we're all too busy? anyhow, i really do like having a place to post things and i know people reading them care. conrad told me some sad news yesterday. i'll give you some background of the last 9 months or so in his immediate family: his mom had a weird episode last summer where she blacked out, and some other weird stuff i'm not sure of the details. after that, she was never the same (according to conrad, sister, dad), and had trouble remembering things, etc. she went to 3 different drs. and no one could find anything (doesn't seem they looked too hard). this same weird thing happened about 2 months ago. after some tests, they found she'd had a stroke sometime in the last 36 hours, and they figured that was what had happened during the summer. the whole family's been struggling with this change. his mom hasn't been able to work as much farm-wise, which is a huge blow. and she doesn't really remember to do housework. she's struggled with being depressed. everyone else seems to be frustrated with her not being able to remember things and being "different". she's getting better, but there's still stuff they're all dealing with. anyways, to get to why i titled my post this is because on the phone yesterday conrad said it had been a weird day. i asked why and he said his dad's been really depressed and mentioned separating from his mom. immediately i felt anger rise up. how could he even think of doing this? i asked conrad, "did you ask him if he remembered taking any vows 25 years ago?!" it made me mad all night. i hate how people just throw marriage around and don't think their vows count anymore after x amount of years when things get rough and love doesn't come as naturally. i think if i saw his dad right now i'd just explode on him. so basically what i'm asking is, will you please pray for conrad and his family? and kind of keep in on the down low--nothing's definite and i'm PRAYING some of these things said by his dad were said out of frustration, not seriousness. love you guys!!