hopefully this is a step in the right direction

broken07 · Junior Member Joined: 02 Apr 2008 Posts: 42

i ask my wife to attend a couples weekend and to my surprise she agreed to go.

http://www.familydynamics.net/anbexp.htm

I am kind of excited but then nervous at the same time. I have noticed she has thrown herself into church activities (which i am not complaining and do not see anything wrong with i have only encouraged her) Hopefully all the prayers are slowly being answered and God is starting to work in her/our lives.

thanks for all the prayers and i would greatly appreciate if you would lift up my family in this time of trouble...

babycakes · Veteran Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 314 Location: In Prayer

You are in my prayers. Hang in there and keep loving her through the strength of Christ's love.

fishi · Full Member Joined: 29 Feb 2008 Posts: 70

YAY!!!!!!!! I, too, hope this is a step in the right direction.

babycakes · Veteran Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 314 Location: In Prayer

I've discovered in my marriage that sometimes I have to take the high road. What I mean is, my husband can be dead wrong and walking in sinful behavior, but I still have to pray for him. He can treat me poorly and I still have to love him with kind words. He can forget to serve me, but I still need to serve him with Christ's love.

And, sometimes, I can be a royal crab and throw darts at him. He still loves me and does not respond with throwing darts right back.

When one of us takes the high road toward loving the other, even when one of is very unlovable, it makes all the difference in the world.

resecured · Full Member Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 177

broken07,

That sounds so wonderful!!!!! I know all the brothers and sisters on this site will be praying for the both of you. May God bless you both with a truly amazing time.

-RJ-

broken07 · Junior Member Joined: 02 Apr 2008 Posts: 42

thank you all for the kind words, i may have spoken to soon. we had agreed on going to the couples weekend the 16-18 of this month and then this morning she said she had something on that friday. I will give her this much though, when we orginally talked we could not afford the weekend and had decided we couldn't do it financially even though we both wanted to go. So she agreed to help out at our son's school on that friday and she ask if we could go to the weekend in june. i agreed that june would be fine but i did tell her i was dissapointed i was looking forward to us going and was praying that this would be the start of creating a marriage beyond what either of us ever hoped for. i didn't harp on not being able to go this month. She reassured me that she wasn't backing out and she wanted to go in june. i hope that is the case, i sometimes have a hard time believing her because she tends to not follow thru with what she says. i pray and remain hopeful and june will be here soon. i think of it like this, sometimes when we pray for patience God may not grant us patience but an opportunity to be patient. HE will take care of my family on HIS time and on HIS terms i have faith in HIM....

thank you all again

charity1 · Full Member Joined: 07 Jan 2008 Posts: 189

broken07,
You're obviously doing something right since she is talking about going to the couples weekend with you. That is a very good start. Just keep doing what you are doing. Love her even when she is unlovable. After all, that is what we all promised to do in our marriage vows. I heard a speaker not long ago say that if marriage was easy we wouldn't have had to make all the promises we made to each other on our wedding day . . . "for better or for worse", "for richer or poorer", "in sickness and in health", "forsaking all others", "cleaving only to you" or at least words to that effect. Even if our spouse doesn't live up to those vows, we made the same vows before God, so we need to keep ours. When you pray for you and your wife, believe without doubting that God will help you. He wants your marriage to survive. _________________________________________

James 1:6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting,

1 Peter 3:7 Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered. (ESV)

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