Post by faith88 on Feb 4, 2007 7:39:18 GMT -5
Please pray for a friend of mine.
This is such a difficult one, and I don't know what to say.
She married a bit late, just to have a family, and she loved them and felt blessed to be a mother.
Her husband is a good reliable man but she never felt any real spark of physical attraction for him.
She is a Christian, now- and knows that there are many woman in the Bible who married to be looked after- probably Ruth did, and these are valid marriages in the eyes of God, and respectable.
But this woman feels empty and sad now the children have left, and it shows how little she and her husband have in common now they don't share the common interest of the children, and doing things as a family.
He is not a Christian.
She knows that love should be a verb, not a feeling, and tries hard to show love in a practical way. He is still a good man and she can't fault him apart from the fact that he moans about the state of the world, as many older men do, and this makes her miserable. When she is with her Christian friends, she feels happier.
Please pray for her to be able to love her husband as much as she loves her children. She feels guilty and confused about it all.
This is such a difficult one, and I don't know what to say.
She married a bit late, just to have a family, and she loved them and felt blessed to be a mother.
Her husband is a good reliable man but she never felt any real spark of physical attraction for him.
She is a Christian, now- and knows that there are many woman in the Bible who married to be looked after- probably Ruth did, and these are valid marriages in the eyes of God, and respectable.
But this woman feels empty and sad now the children have left, and it shows how little she and her husband have in common now they don't share the common interest of the children, and doing things as a family.
He is not a Christian.
She knows that love should be a verb, not a feeling, and tries hard to show love in a practical way. He is still a good man and she can't fault him apart from the fact that he moans about the state of the world, as many older men do, and this makes her miserable. When she is with her Christian friends, she feels happier.
Please pray for her to be able to love her husband as much as she loves her children. She feels guilty and confused about it all.