SF, God works at a very slow pace and that is to ensure that your h's emotional wounds are completely healed. I've often said to many over the years that night is the time when they can't shut their thoughts off. These thoughts are of the home, family, friends and fun times that they've left behind. This is one of the reasons why the can't sleep.
SF, you have been an inspiration to many here on patience, kindness, and compassion. Your faith will carry you through the rest of this journey and the rewards at the end of the journey may or may not be what you expected, but I do think you'll be happier than you've been in a very long time. The road you've been traveling on has been a bumpy one, but not so bumpy that you've lost sight of your faith and that's what is important right now.
I'm very glad to see he took the girls out and had a good time. May I suggest that the girls try something different with him other than shopping, i.e., a sports event or something different? I suspect he gets tired of taking them shopping and that's why he spends a lot of time w/your son, doing the "manly" thing of sitting around talking, etc. I could be far off base w/this, but it's something to think about.
I do hope he comes back by today and stays a while. He's still fragile, but he's still on the path of working his way home. As for his clothes, I bet they stay packed up in the box until he returns home. The vitamins, well...he feels he needs to leave something behind for a bit as a lifeline. Leave the vitamins out where he can see them so that he knows that the lifeline hasn't been cut.
Enjoy your day.
Sit quietly, the answers will reveal themselves when you least expect them to. The past is gone, the present is a gift and you need to focus on today, allow the future to reveal itself when it is ready.
