So I've posted before about various struggles within my marriage, and how we have had many ups and downs, curves, and obstacles... but that is a marriage. "For better or worse, in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer." We have literally climbed through each in this last year.
These obstacles have weighed heavy on our marriage, but we are soldiers and are working through each one. When Calvin and I first started dating, our marriage was heavily washed in our church, our bible, and our faith. Somewhere along the way, we fell off track, and have now realized the missing link is that we stopped relying on our faith to guide us and teach us how to remain open to each other, how to listen, how to speak, and how to be there for each other.
We recently purchased The One Year Love Language Minute Devotional by Gary Chapman and The Everyday Life Bible by Joyce Meyer. We have been taking an hour each night after Braeden is asleep to read our devotional and then some scripture from the bible. We have learned so much already, and the last week has been going great, we feel very strong which we haven't felt in a long time.
Some messages that really hit home were:
"Whoever wants to be first must first take last place and be the servant of everyone else." Mark 9:35
"Be an example to all in what you say, in the way you live, in your love, your faith, and your purity."
1 Timothy 4:12
God gives us each opportunities, it is up to us to be open to see them, and take the opportunity to use them. So as I am writing this blog today in hopes that maybe someone else in similar shoes can maybe improve their relationship with God, themselves, or anyone else just by learning to be open to new beginnings.
I'm not saying life is going to suddenly be easier, today alone I found out Braeden has Pneumonia, and early signs of Asthma. My husband had an MRI from his vehicle accident in March and financially things now are slowly seeping back to poverty BUT I have a calmness about it all this time. So I am taking the opportunity I've been given to share what is helping me and my family.
With Love,
Me <3
