"You should rock together...."

Today was the first Saturday that Kevin and I have had off together in a while. We decided that it would be the perfect day to finish up our Christmas shopping for our families. Given the fact that New Bern mall or the indoor walking center as I call it only has about 5 stores, it was either go the Smithfield to get gifts or everyone would receive gift cards. The best part of the trip was going to lunch at Cracker Barrel. I don't remember the last time I'd had food from Cracker Barrel. It had to be over a year ago while I was shopping with my best friend, Tanisha. Anyway, there was of course a wait so we decided to enjoy the weather outside and rock in the lovely rocking chairs. As we are rocking in our own little world, this older lady walks by and she says, "You have to rock together!". Kevin and I had not noticed that we had our own little rock going in an alternate way. We quickly got on one accord and thanked the lady for her advice.

You know me...the deep thinker...I started reflecting on that. First let me say that I don't intentionally try to to relate everything back to God however I tend to do so quite often. The more I thought about that remark, the more I smiled because I truly feel that it was God's way of imparting wisdom to us. In a marriage it is so easy to get off the same page or speed up while the other is still going slow. A couple must always be on the same page and be willing to adjust to remain on the same page in order for the "rock" to be enjoyable for both parties. If one person insists upon rocking to the beat of their own drum, both will miss out on truly magnificent feeling of being married. Rocking to the same beat requires you to pay attention to the other person even while you are talking or drifting off into a daydream. It really forces you to have an awareness of the other person even when you don't normally think you would. I think that is the lesson that we were suppose to take from that comment. At all times we must be aware of the other person and just as with the rocking, once you have that awareness it is as if you are acting as one body.