WORTHY TO BE PRAISED

Hello from the Kansas Flinthills...
The sky is cloudy and overcast today. I have been under the weather and didn't sleep well last night at all. Sure hoping that this week-end goes better.

I just read a blog posting that caused me to weep. A young married woman that's pregnant has had her husband walk out on her. He doesn't want the baby. This alone stirs up sadness in me.

You alone Lord are worthy to be praised. You are what is solid and unchanging.

A point in time took me back to finishing a two year Associates of Art Degree which took me 14 years to complete. I had put off the math and chemistry classes to the last. I remember carrying in my math book a thank you note from my Grandma's family thanking me for flowers for the funeral. I had wrote on the card 'She had a third grade education.' When I was struggling with the math, I'd look at this card that was being used as a book mark. Looking at this card gave me encouragement to toughen up and tough it out.

Grandma did not have an easy life. She married her step father's brother that was on the rebound from being rejected by another woman. Even the ring was for the other woman. As a child, Grandma had worked her step dad's fields like a dog. At 16, she was proposed to and married. 11 children would be created from this union. Grandpa died before I was ever born, so I didn't know him. He would drink and beat on my Grandmother.

Though she had so many children and little education, there was a time in her life she left her husband due to his drinking and such. Journeying with her young children from Canada back to Kansas. I remember thinking if Grandma could leave an abusive husband, then I could do the right thing when I had to concerning a very troubled marriage that I was suddenly in back in the 90's. Grandma was a Christian. I'm not sure what she prayed, but she'd pray. Her husband would come to her and they remained married until his death. He would change. He had too.

My Dad said that she would go to a cave and pray out loud. When World War 2 was in high gear, she'd pray in that cave. Though she was German herself, 2 of her boys served in the US Army against the Nazis.  

On the same day both sons returned home from the service coming from opposite sides of the world within one hour apart of each other. Can you imagine the rejoicing in her heart she must have had?

With out God giving me strength, I'm not sure where I'd be today. A huge work has been done in my marriage, but not without a price. My husband would change. He had too. To God be the Glory, great things He has done.

With so many marriages folding, God is the one that will strengthen us. He alone is worthy to be praised. He alone is worthy. I am terribly saddened by the trend that is going on with so many people leaving their marriages for whatever reasons. Sometimes it's not your fault as to why a spouse walks away.

Abandoned, betrayed, left to figure out what to do now...
May God strengthen you and show you the way to go.  

Beloved, may He heal you.
Deanna