Seeing the Everyday

Several months ago I subscribed to a quarterly magazine called
"Seeing the Everyday". I think it is a worthwhile production and this is my plug for it. They write about the everyday moments of life which are real, the ones which make life worthwhile. I have found it to be very uplifting. Here is an excerpt from it on marriage. Click on my title to link to there website.
Religious leaders, philosophers, and marriage researchers . . . each emphasize the importance of the prosaic but moral moments in our everyday lives. The philosophy of “prosaics,” created by contemporary literary critic Gary Saul Morson, “. . . Questions whether the most important events may not be the most ordinary and everyday ones. Cloaked in their very ordinariness, the prosaic events that truly shape our lives—escape our notice.” In other words, the big milestones of life, important as graduations and job promotions are, may cause us to overlook what Morson calls “the infinitely numerous and apparently inconsequential ordinary ones, which taken together, are far more effective and significant.”
The prosaic marriage is one that fits our real, day-to-day lives. It’s not one that lives in a fantasy world where we must always be enchanted newlyweds rather than old friends; where Eden-like homes never need to be cleaned. The prosaic marriage is centered in the home and its normal, everyday routines. Hollywood may not find it alluring. But . . . marriages are filled with ordinary moments of grocery shopping, breakfast conversations, and bear hugs that sustain husbands and wives through the heavy burdens of child rearing, earning a living, illness, and life itself. Ironically, it is in the prosaic moment that marriage finds its ultimate meaning and thus becomes the “big deal” universally yearned for.
http://www.seeingtheeveryday.com/
I thought this was very true and something important to remember about marriage. So go give your hubby a bear hug or wife. Hope you enjoy it and get yourself a subscription to this great magazine.