A Sailor’s Storm

My wife was having some pain from an arthritic hip and I was a little testy with her. I wrote this to remind me of what it takes to love, and what the wrong words could do to a weak relationship. I never want that to happen to our relationship. We would like smooth sailing all the time, but we all know storms come. The good news, the storm’s end and the damage can be repairable or it can sink the ship, and I have no desire to be in a sinking ship. As we say in the Navy when the storm is approaching, batten down the hatches and take the storm straight on. On ships we practice damage control over and over before we go to sea so when we are out to sea and a storm finds us, we are prepared to face the storm without making a mistake, or not being prepared to save the ship. All our lives are at risk.