Have I mentioned I am blessed by my husband??

Last nite...sitting on the driveway w/Halloween Candy, a glass of wine, a cigar..... smokin ribs...
no... well very few trick or treaters...
BUT neighbor comes by...neighbor for years...just hangs by the fire with us...his son is very fond of Dan and I....his son ran over after trick or treating to just hang w/us...his Dad comes over and begins to talk to Dan about his marriage...their seperation, their troubles...

Dan tells him we would help....no answers, just journey with them. He begins to tell him we'll point them to Jesus.....but we'll walk with them in THAT journey....

I don't know if they'll take us up on it...but I am so proud of my husband....to offer to walk with them..and now....we pray..would you pray with us that IF they take us up on it we would love them consistently and boldly, yet gently to a marriage of infinite depth....I am grateful at the boldness of my husband...the confidence he has in what YOU have done in our marriage and what YOU can do in theirs.....

Thinking this morning it's really as simple as 'availability'....no agenda just hangin on the driveway, inviting any and all to join us.....praying what they see will match up w/what we say....

from Tuesday of this week:
I am called to have the conversations...w/out expectation or demanding anything of them, filled w/HOPE have the conversations.....to love and seek to understand IN the conversations and to stand on what I believe without judging them or their beliefs...it's never been promised to me to BE easy.....but this is who You are making me.....

thank You Abba for sending Your Son and Your Spirit...help me please.....

This is who you are making US.....