Moving Furniture

I live in a house with FIVE males. And, as DS 2 reminded us yesterday, their testosterone levels peak in the later teens....so that means that at least three of them are at peak for muscle-building, grunting, and developing and excercising all their primal instincts. Whatever!


For anyone who lives in a "pink" estrogen house and has no idea what I'm talking about, there are moments when you just have to push back the furniture and let them wrestle. I've watched many matches in my living room over the years. They roll. They grunt. They breathe heavily. They wait for someone to tap. Sometimes they roll into the boundaries of my tables, couches, and curio shelves. It's in those moments that I whince! Luckily most of my things have survived unscathed by their "moments on the mat".


Have I told you lately that I NEED a "PINK" room?????


Today while listening to the match in the next room with four of my guys, I found myself wondering for the hundredth time: "What's the draw?" "Why would perfectly sane human beings want to roll around with one another on the ground facing possible aches and pains?" "Can't they just STOP?" "It's all so unnecessary!" "PLEASE somebody TAP before someone gets hurt!"

And suddenly I had a new picture in my head:


We ALL have occasional wrestling matches...those moments when we engage in a struggle for power or control over someone or something. It doesn't matter whether we're estrogen-riddled or testosterone-laden.

I wrestle against things every day. Sometimes I win and sometimes I don't. And I get bruised sometimes. What I often "miss" though, is that someone has "moved the furniture" back for me so that I don't get badly injured. Most of the time, the match is unnecessary, but it's MY effort to gain control over someone or something....

I can picture, God, the mover of the furniture, sitting there saying:

"What's the draw?" "Why would a perfectly sane human being get into THAT power struggle and possibly face aches and pains?" "Can't she just STOP?" "It's all so unnecessary!" "PLEASE TAP before someone gets hurt!"

I'll keep moving the furniture when my guys are in their matches for fun....

I'll give praise for my Father who moves the furniture for me!

And I'll work on TAPPING sooner!