It's Time to Sing a Brand New Song

[Mimi00]

It's really important to me that I find someone that knows how difficult it is to work on a relationship and especially a marriage, and that they won't just bail in hard times. {/quote]
For me, my personal issue with that is.... I did that the first time.

We discussed numerous times before marriage how serious marriage was and what hard work it was going to be. My parents even sat us down when he asked my father for "my hand in marriage"... and talked to us about the seriousness and my husband reassured them he would take care of me for the rest of his life, there was nothing I could do to make him want to leave and divorce would NEVER be an option for him.

He clearly didn't know himself well enough (and many people don't). He thought he had the backbone for marriage, he doesn't. He was convinced our marriage would survive anything and he'd always want to do the work it took to avoid divorce.
He left....

I think that's why it would be so hard for me.

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The sermon series at my church right now is about the Promised Land, it's shown online if you want to watch it. It's regarding the Israelites deliverance from Egypt, wandering in the wilderness for 40 years, and then finding the Promised Land. In a Gallup poll, only 13% of Christians felt like they were living in the Promised Land. This series is about leaving the past behind and focusing on the future and reaching your proverbial Promised Land while on this earth. This is the Oak Hills Church series led by Max Lucado, you can watch online, you may get a benefit out of the series.

Keeping you in my thoughts and prayers! Stay strong.

Thanks for the info, I will look it up and try to check it out.

One of the churches I keep up w/ online did a series on Exodus recently as well. This pastor focused on each plaque and the fact that the plaques/hard times had to come in order for the Israelites to finally be free.

Concerning Pharaoh, Moses wanted to compromise w/ Pharaoh to have the Israelites set free....but the lessons learned from that:

"You can not compromise with people who think their gifts and abilities belong to them and not God.

You can not compromise with people who don't know God, OR act in a manner as if they do not know God.

You can not compromise with people who do not realize God is in charge.

You can not compromise with people with hard hearts."

Funny enough I heard this the same day, a few hours after, I tried to get my H to reinstate my Health insurance....after hearing that I decided to let the issue go and come to grips w/ the fact that H is no longer my H and I have to handle him as such...I can't expect the best from him anymore...he is now Pharaoh, full of pride and thinks his ways are the best, he is only thinking of how he benefits from his choices.