Never Say Never!

The older I get the more I find that all those things I said I would "never" do, I am doing. It started when I was young and mad at my parents. I remember crying in my room after getting in trouble for something and saying to myself, "When I am a mom I will never spank my kids!" Or "When I have kids I am never going to make them go to bed early or eat anything they don't like!" Then as I got older, there were other empty promises to myself, like "I will never date a doctor, much less marry one!" And the others: "I will never move back to Powdersville." Or, "I would never live in a tri-level house, they are sooo ugly." And let's not forget "I will never drive a minivan!" Yet, here I sit, a child spankin', former minivan drivin', doctor's wife who lives in nothing short of a Brady Bunch special tri-level home and who is currently looking at land in Powdersville and sounding more like her mother every day.... I do believe that God certainly has a great sense of humor. It is like He is saying ' You have no idea what you are and are not going to do, so quit saying stuff like that, it makes you look ridiculous.' And yet, I still say it, and I am usually eating those words within a short amount of time. My favorite one is from when I was a teenager and I used to say "I don't know why women dye their hair and go through all the trouble to look young- I would never do that, I am going to age gracefully and naturally." Let's hope that the graceful part will be true at least!!!