Gulf Shores, Alabama

Danish and I taking a road trip to the beach! How gracious is God to give us this opportunity to rekindle our marriage which nearly came to an end as of nearly two months ago. Although we've suffered for such a long period of time, I am certain God will honor us for our obedience to Him. I am still awed by the fact that Hannah will have her Daddy with her and I am still with a husband to whom I can submit to. Perhaps I can also be blessed with the affections of an adoring husband as well! Nevertheless, my faith continues to be inspired by the miracles in my daily life.

Respect

“I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.”

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Learning

I can't believe I still have so much more to learn about life. It's overwhelming.

Hope

For you, God, tested us;
you refined us like silver.
You brought us into prison
and laid burdens on our backs.
You let people ride over our heads;
we went through fire and water,
but you brought us to a place of abundance.
I will come to your temple with burnt offerings
and fulfill my vows to you -
vows my lips promised and my mouth spoke
when I was in trouble.
I will sacrifice fat animals to you
and an offering of rams;
I will offer bulls and goats.
Come and hear, all you who fear God;
let me tell you what he has done for me.
I cried out to him with my mouth;
his praise was on my tongue.
If I had cherished sin in my heart,
the Lord would not have listened;
but God has surely listened
and has heard my prayer.
Praise be to God,
who has not rejected my prayer
or withheld his love from me!
(Psalm 66:10-20 NIV)

Three days

Lord, give me a gentle tone, an encouraging voice, an understanding heart, a soft touch, a calm demeanor...help me to love and respect my husband even as he hurts me deeply.

Why do I hurt?

From the very first moment I entered the world from my mother's womb, unbeknownst to myself, all the emotions I would ever feel would be completely wrong.

Rearranging my priorities

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion." - Henry David Thoreau