Is it Monday already? Wow....it was here before I could turn around! As always, I would like to thank our gracious hostess, E-Mom from Chrysalis for inviting us to "her house" today for another installment of Marriage Monday. If you haven't already been by, you can find her at http://www.chrysaliscafe.com (please forgive the typed out link...I was determined to use the Typepad app on my new iPad tonight...and....well, there is not a way to create hyperlinks, that I have found anyway!)
The topic that E-Mom has so carefully chosen for us is the subject of faith in our marriage. Let me just tell you now.....I LOVE THIS TOPIC! I was so glad to see it, just because that is the one thing that I believe our marriage cannot and would not survive without. In a world where faith in the Lord Jesus Christ seems to be in the minority, I believe that Rob and I would experience sudden death in our marriage without Jesus as the third strand in the cord that IS our marriage.
I have actually tried before to sit very still, close my eyes and try to imagine what our lives would be like without Jesus, our faith or even just each other. My friend....I CAN'T DO IT! It's that same panicked feeling that you get when you awaken from a hideous bad dream and sit straight up in bed. I can't stand it. I can't do it.....it hurts my heart to try. But, on the flip side, it's that hideous feeling in the attempt that is what makes me snap back to reality and know that I cannot live one breath on this earth without Jesus and that my marriage would suffocate without Him.
Our faith in Him is most definitely the common thread...the life blood of our marriage. It is also what draws us together as a couple. We love to pray together....especially lying in bed at night, just before going to sleep. There is just something about those prayers with the Lord....lying in the pitch black dark holding hands. For me, it's the closest thing to having the Lord almost incarnate....right there with us. And our faith doesn't just show up in those prayers, but just in our regular every day conversations. A lot of the time that we spend together talking is about our faith....what we believe in....what we hold the closest to our hearts. It's what we thrive on.
I thank God every day for my husband and for salvation in both of our lives. I thank Him for bringing us together and for helping us to build a household of faith so that we can serve Him in a covenant marriage for the rest of our days on this earth. Thank you Lord....and to GOD be the glory, for GREAT THINGS HE HAS DONE!!!
Blessings,
