How we balance!

Am I antsy? Ask my husband, cuz he just very well might call me an antsy person. I can sit just so long doing nothing. On the other hand, I'd call him content.. content to sit and do nothing (like watch hours of football and take naps). We, Richard and I, though very much alike, are very different in this way. I must be doing most of the time, and he is okay not doing. Do you see what I'm saying? It's not that he doesn't work hard, but he is happy with the same routine day after day. I, on the otherhand, get frustrated with routine. And I can have down time only for awhile. Yes, everyone needs rest. But I don't want too much of it!

This is our difference spiritually too. I'm hungry, wanting to always be pursuing onward. He is content where he is. Somehow, when Richard came to the Lord, after reading the Bible from front to end... he grasped it all immediately. OK...he is smarter than me. I have to study more and seek and cry out for understanding on certain scriptures. He seems to know. I, well, I enjoy the daily revelation.

I know it is good to be both content (at peace), AND pursuing (wanting to grow, wanting to learn more). We know the scriptures praises and encourages both.

A wise man once told me (Richard, of course, is the wise man)that not all other people will be like me. Of course not! I knew that. Or did I? Actually I didn't because I know I expected them, in spiritual matters, to be like me. Same hunger, same drive. The truth is, we are not all the same in this regard. We are programed different, different energy levels, different focuses, and many more differences. I'm thankful for the drive to know HIM and that God has placed that in me. But I should not be critical of my man that his drive is not the same, or his drive is more hidden. I know He loves God and desires to serve him. So, if God has given Richard great contentment, to be that rock in my life, then that is great. And if he has given me a hunger, a desire to be continually pressing on, pressing in, and pressing upward, that is great too. I can be the variety in Richard's life that he would miss without me. :-) It all balances out. Amen?