Yesterday was a day to celebrate all the way around. My nephew’s transplant went smoothly and my brother’s prostate cancer is contained and easily treatable. Praise God! The other thing that took place yesterday was a conversation I needed to have a with a person that I knew would find it troubling, but it was necessary. It went very well and God was in it all the way. I had delayed this for a few days to find Christ’s confirmation that I should do this rather than reacting from my own self-will. By yesterday I had that confirmation to move forward.

There is something I’m seeing as I work with couples in counseling. This is the need for the couple to be a team in their marriage. I had a husband ask me yesterday to make sense of how women are wired differently than men as each approaches life. This couple has been married 34 years and deeply involved in church life, but their marriage is simply living in the same house. The wife has been coming for several months and her husband has come for three weeks. He’s a very friendly person and very self-assured in the flesh. As I pointed out his wife’s spirit-connection and how this could benefit him being far more aware of his dealing with people, he got very quiet for he hurts those closest to him without any awareness and this includes his wife and children. We will spend more time here, but the importance of God completing man with woman is often lost in man’s flesh. That softer, kinder approach that God uses with us is best known in our wives and it isn’t found in us men if we don’t team with our wife or with a woman we trust deeply when we are single.

The journey continues!