We just got a record player that we excitedly just purchased used. This is the kind that plays records, CDs, cassettes, Bluetooth and the radio. It was the records though that I bought it for, and it wouldn’t even play our record! I was so bummed, as we had been wanting to listen to our records together for a while.  Ever since our last one stopped working. My husband told me he thought he might be able to fix it.  I immediately started to feel hopeful.  He immediately started problem solving how he could make it work for me. Eventually, he found a possible solution to fix it. So, we ordered the necessary part for it and then listened to the radio on it; at least that worked. A song came on that we decided we liked, so we both stood up for an impromptu dance. While I also in a silly fashion sang part of the lyrics wrong. Laughter echoed through our walls, as music played and we danced. What could have been time spent in disappointment, was one spent with joy, laughter, and hope. We can allow things that disappoint us to steal our joy, or we can find joy in it. We can make the most of it. We’ll find out later if the part for our record player is going to work. I hope it does, but if not, I can still associate that record player with joy. For I look at it and I see my husband doing everything he can to help bring joy to me. I see my husband and I finding a random song we end up liking on its radio and dancing to it. I hear me singing part of it ridiculously and I hear our laughter in it. Friend, God never promised that we’d live a life without disappointment sometimes. Though He promised to always be with us through everything. I know it was God guiding us in our marriage to find the joy, not in having things always be our way, but the love in the adventure together. The part comes tomorrow, maybe my husband can fix it and we can dance to our favorite records. Though even if not, I will gladly dance with him anyway, while thanking God for such a great man to do life with.

Erin Fitts-Brower 

Even if

Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 NIV

Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up.