Friday Date Night

I was shocked last week when Mike took me to the movies. It was out of the blue. We never date. Last night he came home and told me we were going out again. I think I had a shocked smile on my face. I tried not to go. I said, Mike, we've experienced some devastating financial blows again this week. (He is a contractor and we are owed lots of money that the people aren't paying us.) He said the same thing he said last week.

$20 taking you to a movie isn't going to make or break us and our marriage comes first. Now go get ready.

Who is this man?

Truly, the love of God and experiencing a personal relationship with Him is changing Mike. It reminds me of all the good things we are taught concerning salvation. What do they always say? They say there should be a change in who you are. If you get saved and then continue to live the same way and change nothing then you better check yourself. They say LOVE is who God is and if you are in Him then those traits of God should be showing in your life.

All I can say is Mike has never acted the way he is acting before. He is so much more loving and he is actually dating me and thinking of my feelings and actively trying to make me a happy wife. What did he call me.... ah yes, his shining glory. I'll never forget it. Truly, having a personal relationship with God has changed him. Hurray!! I just still can't get over it.

One question I still have..... Mike has tried honestly to try having a personal relationship before on and off over the years. He really did, I'll give him that. But he always said he felt nothing and church was a bore and he never could feel the things that myself and other Christians would say they feel. It really frustrated him and I always wondered if it takes God calling us to Him. I mean I know anyone can be saved by faith and prayer but to truly know Him. I know Mike tried in the past. Well, all I can say is that God is front and center right now and WOW!! I love to watch him grow.

I am also enjoying the woman part of Ephesians 5. I always thought I wouldn't like it but being in Godly submission to your husband is wonderful if the husband is doing his part of Ephesians 5. Why? Because the man part is him loving on you. Taking care of your needs and keeping you happy. He is considerate of you and gentlemanly so to speak. How do women respond when their man is wonderful and kind? We want to do all those things back of course.... Knowing that women want love and men overwhelming want respect first, then love I try to make sure he knows I respect him. And I do. More and more each day. I tell him how impressed I am with him. How proud I am of him. How much I appreciate him. And I do.

So he took me to see Pelham 123 last night and boy was it a great movie!! I will say though that it had WAY too much cursing and I could have lived without the GD's. I guess they were trying to portray tough New Yorkers but sheesh, it was a little overkill. But if you look past the cursing, man was that a total action packed guy movie. I loved it too though. Still could have lived without the cursing though. I'd recommend going to see it though.

Today I take my teen to the airport to visit her dad for 3 weeks. The Atlanta airport is so not my favorite place to be and I am scared for her to fly alone. I am praying they don't give me a hard time about taking her past security to the airplane. Hartsfield Atlanta is very strict with tight security. It is also a very confusing airport for a teen. After security you have to take a ride in an underground train and you have to know which concourse you have to stop and and even I sometimes get confused. Knowing Lexi, it's doubtful she'd ever find it. I lost her once in that airport when she was about 3. There are so many people she broke contact with me and jumped into an elevator and I didn't see her. That place is always so packed. I was screaming her name over and over running around to find her and so many other people stopped to help me. Luckily one of the people getting off that particular elevator remembered seeing a little girl in the elevator and suspected it may be her. They went and got her. She had been riding that thing up and down the whole time!! I thought I was going to die from relief. I'm still a little paranoid from that. He he.

Have a great day,

Jennifer