I sit in front of the computer wondering just what I should write this morning? What keeps coming to mind is the fact our Oklahoma family is flying in at midnight tonight. Two of us are driving in to get them at the airport. The family has grown so one vehicle won’t any longer carry the people and luggage. It is well past my bedtime but that won’t keep this grandpa from staying awake for this reason!

I had a most unexpected counseling session yesterday morning. A lady had come for a couple of sessions due to her marriage. I had asked her to bring her husband is he’d be willing to come. Well, he came. The angry and belittling man was now present but didn’t seem like a “monster”. As we got into the session where I had them complete a personality profile, much of their differences began to get definition which easily outlined their divisive marriage. The session went longer than intended but they were ok with it and I didn’t have any other one following it. We are far from done, but it was so nice to see them smiling and even laughing at their behaviors with one another. So often our differences are appreciated in our early years but they grow into thorns when we begin to turn “selfish”. Once this is brought to light it is so much easier to move forward with genuine reconciliation.

God wants to complete us in our marriage with these differences. Satan, on the other hand wants to turn them into thorns. When we can go back to respecting our mate’s differences and see how Satan has manipulated this, we can wake up and turn it around. Our God Reigns!