“YOU’RE NOT AFRAID THAT A NIGERIAN LADY WILL STEAL YOUR HUSBAND?”
That was the question asked by a customer/friend of my husband today. I confidently responded, “My husband knows he has the best wife. I know I have the best husband. And that settles it!” Woohoo! That’s after a beautiful conversation with this best husband yesterday when he asked for us to come to Nigeria for the Christmas holiday. I explained that right now it’s a sacrifice we’re doing for our kids. The crazy lady (me!) may have her moments, which I apologized for, but I know where I stand with him and he knows where he stands with me: Unbreakable! Love and loyalty, all the way, baby, all for the glory of God. Let’s show the world how this family thing is done with God’s values and principles! Wink! Wink!
Today, I woke up early to get a quick run in with God before going out with the boys to a school function (The pic is of us back home!), and the whole time there, I just felt so incredibly grateful. I sent hubs a text saying, “Thank you for this beautiful life I get to live with you. No place I’ll rather be than with you guys.”
I loved a conversation with my sama (sister/mama), Kelly, yesterday! She was telling me that everyone is worried about me with this crazy lady thing. ”You are not crazy! she said. I explained to her that I’m so grateful to God for this problem, though, that if I was to handpick any problem in the world, I would pick this one. This issue with these sad and depressing thoughts that get the best of me at times, have me running to God like it’s nobody’s business. It has brought me super close to Him that it feels like I talk to God face to face now. It’s been an incredible journey getting to know God on this level. I then come to tell you all the messages from Him that He has asked me to pass on to you guys for Him so that we all WIN TOGETHER.
After saying this to my sister yesterday that she should even thank God for me that He has given me this problem because it has been the best thing for me, I tried so many times to go to page 37 at my God tree, but it refused to go. By that time, running late for boys, I said let me stay on page 3 of our family’s website, and look what showed up:
“And being in that continuous state of gratitude (EXACTLY ME AT THAT VERY MOMENT!!!), even for the really really really hard things it’s like to get down on our knees and be thankful not just when things are going right and when everybody smells good, and the money comes in, and so on but to be in that state of gratitude for…everything coming at you is just part of the perfection of what your curriculum is. That is called your life…” – Dr. Wayne Dyer
That was no coincidence that this message showed up! It was another face-to-face conversation with God under our tree with Him reminding me that He is intimately involved in my life, even that conversation with my sister. My prayer is that we all learn His voice and know that His invisible Presence is always with us, even as we go through the hard, hard, hard lessons He would have us to learn, we can be grateful knowing that He knows the experiences we need to be our best selves. Amen!