So many of you have commented about the opening song I have dedicated to my hubby on my page...I will tell you the story behind it
We both have been married before, him for 18 years, me for 11. Neither of our former marriages were what we expected or hoped them to be. He became a Christian after he was married, I was a Christian when I was married...my former husband also being a Christian....however, he did not know how to be a husband, and we had lots of problems...to the point, that I just gave up and left him.
During those months that we were seperated, God was dealing with me to return....I fought it because I couldn't honestly say that there was any love left for him. However, I finally gave in to Gods will, and returned because God was teaching me about committment and how important that was to Him.
The marriage didn't get any better, and I couldn't understand why God took me back to it. A few months later, we found out that my husband had throat cancer......then I knew Gods' reason.....my husband had no family to take care of him.....his parents passed away several years before, and his only sister lived away from this area.
The next five years, we battled this cancer together through two surgeries, numerous chemo and radiation treatments. During this time, my husband apoligized to me for not being the husband he should have been, and God showed me that he just didn't know how to be a husband, but that I could still be a wife to him...and I grew to admire his courage, strength and unwavering faith as together, we fought what ended up being a losing battle.
While we were fighting our battle, my now hubby and his former spouse were also going through the same sort of battle with her cancer....he stayed in his marriage to take care of her. Committment......
After their deaths, an amazing thing happened......I got a computer and found myself on a Christian Singles web site...there was this guy named David, who had lost his wife to cancer...we started chatting at nights because neither of us could sleep after the death of our spouses....we cried together, prayed together, and eventually laughed together...then we started talking on the phone, and since we only lived 3 hours apart, we decided to meet somewhere for coffee.
Well, God is so amazing...this man was exactly what I had been looking for all my life ...he fit exactly the list of qualities I had written on paper and put into my Bible ( yes, I made a list....God promises to give us the desires of our heart) He had me from "hello" !
It was a God thing.....we both knew that God had directed our paths to find each other. We were engaged a month later....married three months after that. Too soon ? No, not when God is in it.....He does a quick work ( and we weren't getting any younger !)
That was six years ago. Our marriage is blessed with an ever growing deep love for each other that many search for and few find. I know, without a doubt, that this wonderful man I'm married to, who cherishes me with all his heart, is my gift from God for living out the committment I made to my former husband "till death do us part" .
Sometimes God works in mysterious ways, and David and I both know that our steps were ordered by the Lord. We are amazingly blessed to have found each other and have never been happier.
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