Rob= LOGICAL
Kimberly= EMOTIONAL x's 100,000
God blessed me with a husband that knows so much about the Bible. I feel like Rob can recite any Bible story for you...name it...he'll recite it. Me...eh...not so much. Don't get me wrong. I know my Bible...I can talk about it with you all day long if you'd like me to...but, when it comes to facts and events I just couldn't keep up. I can tell you feelings...emotions...pains of the Bible...joy's of the Bible...I can tell you where to find prayer and where to resort to for peace, and certainty. But if you ask me which ocean this or that happened in or at...well...you've got the wrong gal. Yep, my cold hard facts are somethin' I need to brush up on. I'll admit it, I'm an emotional learner...reader...writer...I'm female. I'm emotional. It's a wonder I passed math isn't it!!! The concrete isn't always concrete for me.
My husband...he's logical. It's facts for him...it's cold hard facts that he just excels with. And, this big difference is wonderful for us.
Why? We talk about the Bible...we talk about God...we talk about why...when and where this or that happened...and I feel like in all of our talks...we learn, we teach....and we do this FOR one another. I crave it. I crave knowledge of the Bible...I crave Jesus...I crave every ounce of information I can pertaining to my faith, because my faith...it's my life...it's my why...it's my reason...and it's what I live for. I crave everything there is to know regarding MY CREATOR.
Do you talk to your spouse about the Bible? Are you real with your spouse about your faith, or lack-there-of?
After church today I just felt zapped...I crawled into my "comfy clothes"....grabbed the tablet...and nestled myself into the sheets. Rob came in and just sat with me...and we talked about God, we talked about the Bible...we talked about what we were feeling. I exclaimed to him that " I feel like my faith and I are goin' through some growing pains...." and you know what my spouse did? He said to me, "I think that's a good thing!" "You are growing...you are learning...". There's so much peace when you can talk to your spouse about your faith. Are you talking?? It's a really big deal.
I can truthfully tell you we talk about it daily...it's a daily thing for us...because our faith defines us...our faith carries us.
And...yes...I have to agree...growing pains are such a wonderful thing when it comes to our faith!!! Why? BECAUSE YOU ARE GROWING. You are being faced with something that requires you to rest in your faith...and THAT will grow us. I know people that have never endured these "growing pains" as I like to call them...nope, never. They were raised in a religion...and it was bottle fed to them...so it just was! There wasn't a question if it was right....wrong...why...how....it just was. I'm not satisfied with "it just was"....I crave knowledge...I want to know why...I want to know how...I want God to give me opportunity to say..."alright...it's all in you....".
Talk about it. Talk about your faith...I assure you...if you talk about it...it will grow...you'll ask questions...you'll get answers...something will move...and something will happen.
Kimberly= EMOTIONAL x's 100,000
God blessed me with a husband that knows so much about the Bible. I feel like Rob can recite any Bible story for you...name it...he'll recite it. Me...eh...not so much. Don't get me wrong. I know my Bible...I can talk about it with you all day long if you'd like me to...but, when it comes to facts and events I just couldn't keep up. I can tell you feelings...emotions...pains of the Bible...joy's of the Bible...I can tell you where to find prayer and where to resort to for peace, and certainty. But if you ask me which ocean this or that happened in or at...well...you've got the wrong gal. Yep, my cold hard facts are somethin' I need to brush up on. I'll admit it, I'm an emotional learner...reader...writer...I'm female. I'm emotional. It's a wonder I passed math isn't it!!! The concrete isn't always concrete for me.
My husband...he's logical. It's facts for him...it's cold hard facts that he just excels with. And, this big difference is wonderful for us.
Why? We talk about the Bible...we talk about God...we talk about why...when and where this or that happened...and I feel like in all of our talks...we learn, we teach....and we do this FOR one another. I crave it. I crave knowledge of the Bible...I crave Jesus...I crave every ounce of information I can pertaining to my faith, because my faith...it's my life...it's my why...it's my reason...and it's what I live for. I crave everything there is to know regarding MY CREATOR.
Do you talk to your spouse about the Bible? Are you real with your spouse about your faith, or lack-there-of?
After church today I just felt zapped...I crawled into my "comfy clothes"....grabbed the tablet...and nestled myself into the sheets. Rob came in and just sat with me...and we talked about God, we talked about the Bible...we talked about what we were feeling. I exclaimed to him that " I feel like my faith and I are goin' through some growing pains...." and you know what my spouse did? He said to me, "I think that's a good thing!" "You are growing...you are learning...". There's so much peace when you can talk to your spouse about your faith. Are you talking?? It's a really big deal.
I can truthfully tell you we talk about it daily...it's a daily thing for us...because our faith defines us...our faith carries us.
And...yes...I have to agree...growing pains are such a wonderful thing when it comes to our faith!!! Why? BECAUSE YOU ARE GROWING. You are being faced with something that requires you to rest in your faith...and THAT will grow us. I know people that have never endured these "growing pains" as I like to call them...nope, never. They were raised in a religion...and it was bottle fed to them...so it just was! There wasn't a question if it was right....wrong...why...how....it just was. I'm not satisfied with "it just was"....I crave knowledge...I want to know why...I want to know how...I want God to give me opportunity to say..."alright...it's all in you....".
Talk about it. Talk about your faith...I assure you...if you talk about it...it will grow...you'll ask questions...you'll get answers...something will move...and something will happen.