How much is enough?

OK I've already attended my first children's party for this year but this is not on that. It's about marriage. It's a subject I feel that has taken up a lot of my thoughts of late. Now I know that marriage is just a contract but it's also a contract that ties two people together forever so it must be more than that. For a very long time I couldn't figure out why people would subject themselves to so much pain and suffering by getting married. I still struggle to fathom why sometimes. But the point is this... do you continue on making a marriage work even if you wonder why, what do you do when nothing works, and when do you stop trying? How much is enough?

Tsunami

I think it's finally hit me how lucky I am to not have been hit by that tsunami. Twice I have spent boxing day travelling to another country to spend the new year. But this year New Year has been quite depressing. Very quiet. There wasn't any celebration I could hear, no TV show, just quiet contemplation. In one morning over 150,000 people have died, and 2 million homeless. Gee maybe it's God telling us something.