How's everyone doing?

It's been a good week. I'm so blessed with my work....it still feels like tax season! Dana came over last Saturday (without a reservation) wanted to see what i was doing. We ended up going to lunch and then went to do some landscape work at our building....cutting down large dead trees. It was hot out and very labor intensive....about 4 hours. He invited me for a burger and beer after...it was soooo nice! He had his first trauma counseling session Monday....he was pretty shaken up afterwards. Have talked to him a little this week. I bet a nickel i see him tomorrow afternoon.....the Broncos play. I miss him. I know he's not ready to come home, but i still miss him. Happy weekend!

I know it's hard not to think about your wife and her friends but when it crosses your mind just pray for her and her friends. I would pray (and still do sometimes) that the right people be put into my husband's life and the wrong people be taken out. That God would open the right doors and close the wrong ones in this time. I'd ask for a peace of mind and pray that those wordly friends or influences would turn their hearts towards Jesus, whether that meant they had to stay in the picture or be taken out in order to come to God. Praying like this will ease your thoughts.
As far as me, I'm doing better. My husband and I were fightin like crazy the beginning of this week. Almost non stop. I prayed asking God to help humble me back to who I was when we were apart because I've been more naggy and demanding of him. He went on a business trip 2 hrs from where we live on Wednesday and is coming home today but he asked me to come out last night to stay with him so I did. We had a great time together like we were never fighting. So things are getting better this weekend. Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend so far!

I'll be praying for you
I know that had to be tough.

I feel like job lately. One illness after the other.. Literally.. Around 10 within 2 weeks... I've been weak spiritually.. The enemy has been using my step no to really attack me but thank God that He has a plan too and intends to refine me through it! & taking on a abused & neglected 8 year old has been proving itself challenging in many ways..
My parents now want me to stop looking for employment & just take care of my children's, my brother, and my nephew full time. I love the idea of being with my kids full time but I hate the idea of my parents having to support me any longer.. I'm 23 & I just got done with my schooling for dental assisting so I can support us & take the burden off if my parents.. So not sure about my career now.
Court date for my nephew Monday. My sister refuses rehab..
Been trying to remember to pray for Tony & the OW every day. Trying to really press into the Lord & keep him first but it's been hard without extra child, all that comes with the courts & things, & all of these illnesses.. As far as I know about my husband, he's most likely on drugs, has crazy rage fits regularly with a girl who is no good for him, possibly abusing her, no contact with the kids in 3 months, no contact at all with me in almost 2 months, no help for the kids financially- infact I've been paying mine & his phone bill for the past 2 months by babysitting for a friend.. I know the suddenly is coming.. But to be honest my prayers for him have dimmed.. Like I feel like I keep saying the same thing over & over with no result... Then today I watched a podcast from church & he was talking about that very thing. About the story Jesus told about the widow who petitioned to the judge so many times the He finally gave her what she wanted due to her persistence.
I feel like this OW is the like the last part of tony being a out of home prodigal. I feel like it was so nessisary for both of us that he was with her.. I feel a shift happening .. It's weird.
I feel like the suddenly is coming soon & he will be home very swiftly..
It's going to be hard when he comes home but I think he will be commited to me & the Lord this time. I was to use this time to let the Lord refine me & grow me in every way possible

Oh my gosh Mary your faith is just inspiring and I am really proud of you sister. For me, things have been good. I finally took Adrienne's advice and took my eyes completely off of Chris and have them fixed on God and it is amazing. I've never been so joyful before. I have this huge weight lifted off of me. No matter what is going on with Chris, I don't have to worry! God has this! Thy will be done Lord. I just want to encourage you Mary. I know you are burdened by so much in the world and so much in your life, but remember to look at the sparrows and know that GOD HAS YOU IN HIS HAND! He will not let you fail. I think if your parents are offering to help and there will not be strings attached or consequences for that offer, take the help and thank the Lord for his blessings.

Mary, I completely relate to that. My parents don't do anything without expecting that it gives them some kind of control over me or my family. They have told me they think of my son as their son too. My mom has also told my sister to just wait until I'm gone and then do the things I have asked them not to do (for example, Christian has a grown and isn't supposed to chew gum, because the crown could come out, but she gives him gum when I am not around). I get it...it's stupid and it's stressful. Our pastor was talking about sometimes having to leave the a "good person" who you just can't get along with and I really feel like that is me. I've been distancing myself a lot from my parents (obviously I run my dads business and my mom watches my son 3 half days in the week, so its not completely distanced, but its better then it was) and that has been working. My sister always tells me to just say thank you and don't allow them the control and she's right. It's trying to please them a lot of the time that ends me in that situation of frustration with them.