Mary Beth Chapman

Anyhow, we moved here and I got a job and you went to school.

If you can just get your calendar figured out.

I just, yeah, I would echo that.

I think there is a lot of, you know, if we can pray harder, you know, meet with our small group more, you know, whatever it is, you know, get with our pastor, get with our counselor, and pray.

not have the willingness to realize.

I think for me, I think I spent a lot of our early ongoing, you know, marriage going, if I could just get him to, if he would just da, da, da.

If I have to listen to blah, blah, blah, or, you know, and there's a lot of I, I, I, which is interesting because I think in 2026, there's a lot of focus on people being, I have to be my best me.

And if I can't be my best me, then I can't serve him well or whatever.

There's truth to that, right?

We need to take care of ourselves, obviously.

We need to take care of ourselves and be healthy and all those things.

And we need to realize that there is a center when I look in the mirror and there's a lot of, I'm a selfish, I want what I want how I want it.

And I think it's taken a lifetime for,

of, you know, realizing it more and more and more that this book could have been written in one sentence.

And that is, how do we bear with one another in love?

How do we esteem the other more important than me?

You know, how do I just, I have my desires, I have my wants, how do I take it to, you know, yes, taking it to God in prayer and going, you know,

And I have an enemy.

It's not him.

He's not my enemy.