Being the wife of a police officer has it’s challenges. One of those challenges is watching him harden over the past 22 years of service, and there not being much I can do about it. As an officer Hubs doesn’t often, if ever get to see the good in people while dealing with the bad choices they make and continue to make. If I didn’t have faith that God will deal with him on this matter, and trust that I don’t have too, I would become overly focused on it, and it would create a hurt between us.

While I don’t want Hubs to ever let his guard down, I also don’t want him to stop believing that there is still good in people.

I love the way God brought this into play yesterday. Our daughter called us asking if we had seen her wallet. She had  panic in her voice, and had already franticly dug through her purse and car. As I talked with her, I quietly asked her to retrace her steps over the past couple days. She said she had taken it out a day ago at Target to get her debit card out. The debit card, and an envelope of cash were tossed into the bottom of her purse, but no wallet. (such is the condition of a young single moms care and purse lol).  In the meantime we looked around the house for her with no success. Hubs then reported “well if it was left in the cart at Target, it’s long gone now. People are not going to turn in a wallet”.

As we hung up, I began to pray. I went about my chores out of his ear range, and  said “God I don’t want to tell you what to do, but this would be an awesome opportunity to show Hubs that there are still good people in the world, and my prayer is that a good person found that wallet and turned it in”.

Now God has his own mind and when I pray I also plan/hope to accept his answer whatever it may be. My heart was for our girl getting her DL and SS card back, and for Hubs to be “owned”. Well not that extreme, but it didn’t stop me from doing the happy Jesus dance, when she called and said that it indeed had been turned in, and everything was in it. I praised God for the opportunity he chose to show Hubs that there are still good people in the world, and I thanked him for that person and asked him to bless them abundantly for their honest act.

I hope, you will plan to accept Gods answer to your prayers, no matter what the outcome will be.

Take some pressure off yourself give your spouse over to God, let HIM be responsible for bringing about change in their life. While you draw closer to God in a meaningful relationship with him.

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