We have found that the best way for our marriage to work is to let me make the big decisions and my wife the small ones. With this system, I'm noticing, there are usually no big ones.
We might define an eccentric as a man who is law unto himself, and a crank as one who having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.
If our petitions are in accordance with His will, and if we seek His glory in the asking, the answers will come in ways that will astonish us and fill our hearts with songs of thanksgiving.