“...if we can get it right to show love when we are hurting, respect where there's disrespect, honour, where there's dishonour, we are showing them what Jesus taught us when He said: Love your enemies. Boy, I never knew what this meant, until all I really wanted to do was hurt my husband and hurt him bad, to relieve my pain!! Work and press directly into your pain and pray, pray, pray for wisdom and freedom from fear and resentment every day”
My D-Day was only 9 days ago and each hour is a different wave - despair, rage, hope for a better future - and then it all cycles back again. We’ve only been married nearly two years so I’m like, how can we build a new foundation when we barely had one to begin with? Your words and this story touched me, not just because my husband is also a chiropractor but because I’m leaning on God like I never have before. Is this to draw me closer to Him? Because I call on Him out of need and sadness and fear like I’ve never known? He’s all I have right now but maybe you’re right and this is our chance to be what God called us to be. To love like Him when we feel like it the least.
“...if we can get it right to
“...if we can get it right to show love when we are hurting, respect where there's disrespect, honour, where there's dishonour, we are showing them what Jesus taught us when He said: Love your enemies. Boy, I never knew what this meant, until all I really wanted to do was hurt my husband and hurt him bad, to relieve my pain!! Work and press directly into your pain and pray, pray, pray for wisdom and freedom from fear and resentment every day”
My D-Day was only 9 days ago and each hour is a different wave - despair, rage, hope for a better future - and then it all cycles back again. We’ve only been married nearly two years so I’m like, how can we build a new foundation when we barely had one to begin with? Your words and this story touched me, not just because my husband is also a chiropractor but because I’m leaning on God like I never have before. Is this to draw me closer to Him? Because I call on Him out of need and sadness and fear like I’ve never known? He’s all I have right now but maybe you’re right and this is our chance to be what God called us to be. To love like Him when we feel like it the least.