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My Bible Study for today

This really made me think. I am trying to read my way through the Psalms, which is really difficult for me. Too much abstract unconnected stuff. it is easier for me to read something with a plot. i have the same problem with movies.

Anyway, I also get about 5 daily devotional kind of things e-mailed to me which I try to remember to read. The reason that this one got me I guess is because my husband has been at working late quite a bit lately. He works in town (an hour away) so he leaves at 6:30 and gets home between 6 and 6:30 every day. He is a transmission mechanic. When he works late it is because someone that we know has a broken tranny and can't or won't pay the shop fees to get it fixed. He has a taxi company that uses him for their trans problems and they called the week before Christmas.

Great news! A little extra cash. Just at the right time, as always. Now, don't get me wrong, God always  provides exactly what we need and we knew that He would provide now. We were just happy to see how that provision would come. So Dave worked an hour early and 3 hours late every day last week, got the cab fixed and delivered right before he came home Friday.

Apparantly that cab lasted all of 2 hours before it broke. It was a part failure, something about a band nreaking and taking out all of the second gear clutches. I really don't know. I can't even change the oil. My dad was a mechanic and my husband is a mechanic, so I never needed to know. Anyway, Dave always warranties his work for 12 months or 12,000 miles so we have to fix it for free. No big deal except that I have a little trouble with this part emotionally.

I know he needs to fix it. I want him to be a man of his word. i do not want to rip off the taxi company. But it sure is easier to have your husband gone every night when you know he is making money. I struggle with it a little when it is a comeback and it is costing us money. Over the years, I have learned to deal with this graciously (most of the time) and not to resent it (most of the time). Last night Dave said something about knowing that he had been gone a lot and how I was "the awesomest" for not being a pain about it. Not great grammar I know, but it sure made me feel like a good wife!

So this devotional today was about how we, as wives, should act when our husbands come home from a long work related absence and it just really struck me that if I had reacted differently I could have really wounded Dave for no good reason. I am so grateful that God has given me the grace to react rightly and not selfishly because if Dave had gotten home 15 minutes before he did....weeellll. That was when the 4 year old needed bathroom help, I was bandaging the burn my 6 year old got from backing into the woodstove, and the 6 year old had something in his eye. All at once of course.

I just thought that probably I am not the only one who has struggled with this and maybe this would touch someone elses heart as well. I don't want to reprint it because I don't know their copyright stuff, so here is the link....   http://www.crosswalk.com/faith/devotionals/encouragement/

Hopefully that works and you don't have to cut and paste it, but I am still new at this so.....

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{ 01:28, 2005-Dec-29 } { Posted by FaithfulAcres }

Dear Jenn,

I can totally relate to what your saying your feeling , its sorta like jeliousy, even if you don't want to feel it... I am praising the Lord for you that Dave has a job, that you have 40 acres and are happy there. The Lord will bring about a time for you to have more time with Dave as a family, in his time. Perhaps that is the hardest part for us as wives , is waiting...
I will be praying for you and I hope you will add me as friend too and I will come back to read your happenings and your heart.
Love in Jesus
Linda
~The Country Homemaker ~
~Faithful Acres~