Lay 'em Down

There's a verse in Revelation (Rev. 4: 9) that says the Twenty Four Elders will lay down their crowns before the throne of God. There is a good possibility that on some level, we are aware that we are not solely responsible when we or things turn out well (i.e. our crowns). So it makes sense, that that "knowing" would make it easy to lay down our crowns as a symbolic act that signifies, I am a recipient as well as a giver of goodness.

I have often thought that if I get a crown for doing/being/living well, I will share it with my addict husband: not because I think he is a victim, but because I don't know how much of my "goodness" is inherent and how much of it was given.

And then the other reason I would share it with him is because if he wasn't such a sinner, no one would know what a saint I was! (Just kidding - there is plenty of evidence to the contrary)