I have been trying to track down a copy of a biography of Sarah Edwards called Marriage to a Difficult man: the Uncommon Union of Jonathan and Sarah Edwards. Yesterday, after looking at a number of places online, I finally thought I had found a bookshop that stocked it (a fantastic little Christian bookshop that just happened to be near my parents' house). So, I dropped the girls off, went to the shop and started looking for the book on the shelves. There were two men working there and one of them came out and asked me what I was looking for. I told him the name of the book and he went off to look and found they didn't have it after all. Then the other man came out of the office, at which the first man said, "Have you seen that book called Marriage to a Difficult Man?"The second man looked a bit uncomfortable (obviously assuming that I was looking for a little help with my marital difficulties) and said: "Well, no, but we do have a few books on marriage over in this section if you are interested". At which point I thought I'd better clarify a few things!
The funny thing is, that when I wrote out an order form for the book as I left, each of the men independently recognised my name and said "Are you married to Dave Starling?"
Which made me realise, it probably was pretty important that I had cleared up the misunderstanding. I mean in my eyes, Dave may be a lot like Jonathan Edwards. But difficult? Never.
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We will be chuckling all day about that one!
I love it!
Too funny! I read that book a couple years ago (I'd loan it to you if we lived closer) and my husband initially thought I was reading some sort of book to help our marriage! He kept hiding it when we had company. Now he just teases me that one day I'll have to write my life story and give it the same title!
Hi Nic, this reminds me of a time I was preparing a talk to be given to Christians at my university on "Love, Sex & Marriage". I was on my way to the lunchtime lecture and had a book with the same title under my arm, but dropped in on the way to see my Dean at the time about some new courses. I sat down and put the books on his coffee table. I said to him, "I need to talk to you about something Eddie." To which he replied pointing to the book, "Well if that's the area in which you need help I'm not sure I'm the right person."
I had a very smirk-a-lot/uncomfortable/'hard to keep the conversation going' situation at our college reunion last year.
My husband and I sat at a table for lunch with a fairly prim pastor (and his wife).
In a valiant effort to get the conversation rolling he asked me "So, what have you been reading lately?"
Great question you say....and I agree!
However, I had to reply "Is that all he ever thinks about?" Yes a sex book.
I may need to borrow some Milly Molly Mandy around reunion time this year.....Just so I'm not caught out!!
I'm enjoying these stories coming out of the woodwork!
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