This morning I was thinking about lightning. What if there was no lightning and the atmosphere was never unstable enough to produce it? Ben Franklin would have never discovered electricity. The light bulb would have never been invented. The twentieth century would have never happened and we'd be still writing things with our hands. I was reading a book called "Software Creativity 2.0" and it pointed out something I hadn't thought of. Practice sometimes precedes theory. It is the reverse of the scientific method. Meaning things are put into motion and then we figure out how it works. Take the airplane for example. Wings were invented before we knew about how it works. In my life I tend to just do things without theorizing and testing all possible outcomes, however I do test many. Take marriage for example. If I didn't love Holly I wouldn't be doing it, but I don't know what is going to happen when we do get married. Now if I was stuck in theory land all I would be doing would be testing things and making sure they are safe. If the Wright brothers would've waited and figured out how wings worked we would've been farther behind in flight now. So as I get closer to that day I am thinking about being an explorer of marriage. This will be unknown to me, and untested. But it will work because we both have sacrificial love and that is true love in practice. These are the voyages of the starship marriage. It's ongoing mission, to figure out what in the world we are getting ourselves into ;-)

Joke
"I'm really enjoying this marriage thing. You think about each other, you care about each other. It's wonderful. Plus, I love saying 'my wife'. Once I started saying it, I couldn't stop. 'My wife' this, 'My wife' that. It's an amazing way to begin a sentence."
- Jerry, in "The Wife"