DESPERATE WOMAN SEEKS GIFT

[brandnewday]

This is a litle something I wanted to post. It is written by a man who was in MLC, divorced his wife and then remarried her.

I am alive today because my wife learned to pray while she was
standing 20 years ago. If she had not become a prayer warrior back
then, she would not have known how to pray for the crises our family
has faced in the past 20 years. Please respond to what God tells
you, and not what you are seeing in your prodigal’s life.

A few minutes ago, I located my old day planner from Christmas week
1986, twenty years ago. If you were to see it, it would spell
success. I had a new promising job, with an expense account and
bonuses. On this very day, Monday December 22, I leased a new
apartment. There are cryptic notes about a string of girlfriends.
That entire week, I saw our kids for a few minutes on Christmas
afternoon.

What is not recorded there is the heartache of waking up on Christmas
morning and not hearing, "Daddy, come and look at what Santa
brought." There is no record of a good-night kiss from my wife, with
her, "Do you know how much I really love you?" My planner has a ton
of plans recorded, but no happiness is ever mentioned. Even worse is
the absence of notes on a spirtual goal of my holiness. I made notes
on fun, not family. My goal was personal gain, not godliness. In
short, the book is a mess.

Do you know what else is not recorded in my book? The hurts of my
standing wife, enduring a scaled down Christmas, without her husband,
all because I put my needs and wants first.

Your stand is about far more than your marriage. The total
restoration of your family will be secondary to your spouse coming
into a personal relationship with Jesus.

I pray that you will have a blessed Christmas, as our family will.
It may not be perfect, but may you start today to acknowledge the
hand of God moving in your circumstances. He is there, and He is
moving, this week and every week.