Reflection

Today is my wedding anniversary. and today we celebrated. Not just because it is our anniversary but because this time last year our relationship was pretty battered (and I don’t mean the kind that comes with chips…). We were struggling big time. In fact we had a holiday in the early summer last year, sans enfants, to get away and just try and talk through stuff, try and fix it. The time was spent talking, crying, being silent, willing each other to be happy, to love each other. The thing is we both knew we loved each other and we both knew that we couldn’t see us apart, but it just wasn’t working. I think we were both just exhausted, 3 kids, me running my own business, we just didn’t have time to spend together and when we did have time we just wanted a break from everything – well I did anyway. If I had an evening off the last thing I wanted to do was spend it with my husband, I just wanted some time for ME.

So we came away from that week feeling that we just had to hang in there for each other. Nothing was going to change until the kids were older and we had some more time. Then of course God showed up in our lives. And you know what, our relationship is healed. Truly. And actually we haven’t changed anything in our lives, we still have 3 kids, my husband still works the same hours, I still ahve my business (well, for now anyway!) and in fact we are probably busier than we were because we have church stuff to do too. But in all that we ahve new found respect for each other, new found sympathy and understanding, new found love and excitement at spending time together and actually we haven’t done a thing! God has done it all. When we renewed our baptism vows a few months back we had to share some testimony and this is what my husband said:
‘it’s like as we fell in love with God, we fell in love with each other all over again’. And thats the only way I can describe it, (and yes I did blub when he said that, big time!).

So today was extra special. We wanted to thank God for bringing us back together and for blessing us so much in what we have together and in our family. So we walked to the top of the nearest hill with the guitar, and sang our hearts out in praise. It’s fair to say it was quite emotional, but amazing too.

So, I don’t care what anyone says about God not intervening in our world today, not performing miracles or caring about what we as inidividuals do, because he sure performed a miracle on us.