Stay
This is my husband reading Scripture while we were in the prayer closet last night. Before you think I'm posting a message to make you think we are "holier than thou," let me tell you this...we are not. We started praying in this closet out of desperation while entrenched in the hardest battle for our marriage to date. For MONTHS we prayed and it seemed as though the more we prayed, the worse things got. Sometimes we went into this closet angry at each other, annoyed, and at the end of our rope. Sometimes our prayers were one-sided while one of us (ok, me) refused to pray. Sometimes we fought before we prayed. Sometimes we fought after. Sometimes scriptures were read and prayers were said with a "take that" attitude to the other person. The stories those walls could tell. It was only by the grace of a mighty God that we stayed. STAYED. In Him. In the closet. Together. How we got from "'till death do us part" to "I want to separ