Night One

Last night I met with a friend and talked and we prayed together. I also prayed with another friend who came over to visit at my house, and also with my roommate. I read a few more chapters and answered the response questions to chapter one of a book I am reading about Christian marriage with my roommate. Here are my answers:

1. I want to get married someday because I was created to share my life, love, mind, body and soul with a husband and children. It is in my nature to complement a man and help him. I can bring greatest glory to god in mothering and loving a man he has entrusted to me and me to him.

2. Partner in bringing greatest glory to God and creating children and families that exhibit His love and glory.

3. Encouraged because I like challenging hard things and I aspire to holiness and continual conversion and transformation into the image and likeness of Christ. My personal experience has been that even in dating relationships I have learned more about love, stretching faith, selflessness, and growth. I know that marriage will be even more intense than boyfriends or roommates .

4. Romantic love needs to be there at the beginning and it must be cultivated but it is not the glue of a relationship. Commitment and sacrificial love is the glue and the foundation and romantic love is the icing on the cake.

5. I do not ask too much of marriage. I don’t know about moderns in general. I don’t plan on abandoning my individual walk of faith, acts of service, and involvement in Godly community with other women. I don’t expect my husband to fill in all my lacking areas, but to be a steadfast support who gives me spiritual and social and financial covering and together we create and raise our children, our family, and with them, our community.

6. They say marriage is like a mirror. I don’t know exactly what that means, but I know that my roommates see an uglier side of me than my acquaintances, and my boyfriends have seen my deeper insecurities and fears than outsiders. I think that in the midst of self revelation, more issues come to the surface and there are more forced-crises that show your true colors.

7. What contribution does a spouse make to our life? Having someone in your life to love you unconditionally,  and whom you commit to unconditionally provides a safety net for growing, trying, learning to be more Christ-like, cover you in prayer, who becomes a priority for you above all others but Christ. Helps you become fully alive and who you are through complementarity and communion, since we are created to be in relationship. Takes care of the biological needs of the husband and wife and satisfy it in each other, bringing joy and intimacy. 

A friend sent this to me:

Hi Juliet,

I will keep you in prayer at Mass each day! I've been going to a BEAUTIFUL church in downtown before work this week. I'll text you the picture : ) 

 

another said: Hi, Juliet~

I'd be happy to join you in prayer for this. I can commit to praying for you on my own, and also doing ONE of the following each day: either email or text or phone call.  

I have time this week, esp on Friday, if you'd like to get together to talk and/or pray.

 

another: 

 Ever in my heart...forever in prayer.

Big talks can be scary, if not nerve racking.  I am not  sure who he  is , but if you say "pray",  I say, " I'm on my knees."  I pray the changes are God will and will make the "us " a good thing.  I will fast.  I will pray.   I will text a prayer.  God will wake up the sleeping and open the hearts of the man.  He can do all things according to his will.  I pray you have a blessed evening and sleep restful in his embrace.

  In your time and in Gods.  I am here to stay and I'm not going away!  Hee hee hee.  Berean ordered me the new The City Harmonic CD " I have a dream"(It Feels Like Home).

  This is what I feel when I listen to the CD....I hear Jesus speak to me and its so awesome.  How he uses the things that I love to reach deep into my soul and cover me with his love.  I am breathless and so in love with our Savior. 

  In Christ we are home, He is our home, our life, our dreams, our desires, our hope, our love, our forgiveness, our EVERYTHING.  We breath in hope and grace, when we breath in Gods fragrance and only then can we breath peace and love.  Jesus is the sum of who we are, like a fire in our hearts.  We hold on to him so that we can taste the real thing and ache for more of Him.  He is the true bread of life.  He is the water and wine upon our lips.  The light of the world.  Door by which we may enter in.  Our good shepherd, the Resurrection and the Life.  Jesus is the Real Deal and We are sold 100% to Him alone. 

I know your share a deep and wonderful relationship with Jesus.  He will take care of you and give to you what will please him and glorify him.  You will stand before God and sing his praise.  In the end....love will not lose.  In God, you will always live and breath to see the face of love.  God is love.

Chin up, eyes upward....thats my girl.

Glory and Peace to you,

Love always,

 

and a text last night right before bed from my night-owl friend:

"praying for you friend. "Though he slay me, yet I will follow him."  

 

AMEN!!! I felt so covered in prayer as I dedicated my night to my Lord.