Be Together – Even When You’re Apart

The car engine starts, the garage door opens, and your husband’s car is headed out the driveway…again. How you miss being with him, and dread yet another day apart.

 As you know, I have a daughter who is a newlywed.  It’s so sweet to see their new home established and the love they share.  I see myself in her and I recall the wonder of being able to be with my husband all the time.  What a blessing it was for us after being separated by three hours!  I was so thankful to be with him constantly!  But after the honeymoon, life stepped in; we each had ministries, jobs and responsibilities.  We couldn’t be together every minute.  There are some days we only see each other a matter of an hour or so, depending on the demands in our life.

One day the Lord reminded me that rather than feeling an emptiness when we were apart, I could go to the Lord in prayer for my  husband, and it brought us “together!”  There’s no way I could always know what my husband needed (even when we were together), but when I went to the Lord and prayed that God would be His all that day, or when I asked God to provide His need, to guard his heart, to give him wisdom for decisions he needed to make, God did for him what I could not.

Then, I found a verse in Proverbs that helped me to add another request to my prayers.  Verse 20 says,