🕊️ I lift my eyes to the hills

From whence comes my help?

My help comes from the Lord,

Who made heaven and earth. 🕊️

Psalms 121:1, 2

🕊️ Two are better than one, because they have a better return for their work: If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up! A threefold cord is not easily broken. 🕊️

Ecclesiastes 4: 9-10, 12

🕊️ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. 

For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 

Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. 🕊️

Ephesians 5:25-33

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Good morning Father!

Thank you for this day!

Thank you for my life!

Thank you for my sweet bride, whom you’ve blessed me in so many ways. Before I followed the Way, when I lived in my flesh, twice I married and twice I was divorced, in part because of infidelity, and in part, because there was no Love in the marriages. It was hollow and empty and dark.

And after giving up a desire for a friend and partner in this life, someone to love and be loved in return, that is when you blessed me with my sweet bride, my Amy!

There are no words to describe the love I have experienced with her. For going on 27 years now. I feel we are as one flesh, truly one in love and all matters in this life together, Thank you Father!

When I was alone and broken, when all my children hated me and looked on me with contempt, when I looked everywhere for the right person to trust with what remained of my broken heart, I found no one. When I was ready to just lay down and die, when I wasn’t looking, there she was Lord! When I stopped searching, when my focus became only filling my life and every thought with serving You and walking in the light, that’s when You sent her to me, my sweet bride!

My journey in this life was filled with tragedy, so much hurt and pain, so many broken memories. When I cried out to you to for healing and comfort, You sent her to me. She has become my everything. So thank you Father! Now after all this time together, I can’t seem to remember the hurt and pain of the past. The Love within me now has caused my heart to swell, replacing the emptiness and darkness with Your light and Your love to comfort me and hold me up. You sent me a woman, a wife, a friend, a soulmate. And in our promise to each other, our one goal, to help the other be successful and focus on the other with love. Thank you Father! 🕊️