This morning my husband came home after being gone for 3 days. We had a great 15 minutes or so and then he made a couple of comments that really got under my skin. I quickly went into a very crabby mood. When I was getting ready in the bathroom (in just my bra and undies) Amos came in and was rubbing my belly and being very affectionate and sweet. I pushed his hands off. I’m so disappointed in myself all over again as I share this with you. My husband responded with love. He very sweetly said a couple calming things and then said we were going to pray. As we stood there praying ( I didn’t shake my mood as quickly as I wish I could tell you I did) I thought to myself “thank you Jesus for a man who chooses to serve you”. We ate breakfast and I thanked my husband for exampling such great Christian character. As I’m sure you well know, it is often very difficult to do or say something nice when someone is being ugly to you. But my husband chose to love me and seek God in the midst of my ugliness. I was humbled.
Thank you Jesus for every little action our husbands do to show their good Christian character. For those of our husbands who are not Christians Lord I pray we would recognize good choices they are making too. Let us be encouragers of our husbands. Let us be the kind of helpers you use to gently guide our men into becoming the men you desire them to be. Let us never discourage our husbands in their faith. May we always rejoice in their efforts and triumphs to be men of God!!!
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Day 34 was very awesome. At the end of the night, both of us having been up since 5 am, he's outside hanging lights and very frustrated, then he see's the power cord all tangled on the garage floor and he sort of lost it, and said a few choice words under his breath about how he felt. I told him it wasn't worth it, to just go to bed then. Walked inside and continued on in what I was doing, knowing he was just tired and needed to be left alone for a minute. He cleaned up, went upstairs and showered, came down and asked for forgiveness. I went straight to him and hugged him. Then we ended up having a VERY lengthy conversation with our oldest daughter, he stayed up with us until after midnight, telling her it was worth the time. Even though he had to get up at 4:30am. I couldn't commend him enough for loving God enough to humble himself to ask for forgiveness and then even in his physical tiredness to have made time for Zabryna for some very important issues we're facing. I couldn't believe it! I was ready to go to bed, and he was ready to go the distance. Dont' forget to pray for your husbands. I'm also reading through power of a praying wife, every day i read and pray for him a new chapter, and I'm telling you God IS working. It's amazing.
What an encouraging story. Thanks for sharing Jen!!!
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