What To Do When The Test Isn't For You?

How do you handle it when the person you love is going through a time of growth and testing that affects everyone around them? Due to the situation of no daycare for Monkey, her seizures returning and me being unable to work things are stressful right now. I have gone through the testing of my faith with this (I know it’s an ongoing process), there is peace in my heart that regardless of circumstances we will have all our needs met and God will bring us through it. I thought for some strange reason that my dear husband was in the same place I was spiritually. Apparently I was mistaken.

So now we are in a place where all I can do is be supportive and pray which in and of itself is another test. How do you help someone else grow their faith?  How do you pass on to another what you have? Is there any other option to help them “get it” or do I just watch and pray? These are not rhetorical questions. These are real questions that I’m looking for answers for; this is the place I’m living right now.

On the one hand, I feel almost guilty that I’ve got peace and he doesn’t; on the other hand I want to shake him until he understands that God will never take us anywhere that He hasn’t perfectly planned and prepared already, even if it’s a scary place. We just have to TRUST JESUS!!!

I ask for prayers from you. Please pray my wonderful sweetheart gets a real up close view of just how BIG our God is and how He is capable of bringing us through this. Please pray that I am a good and loving wife to him so that he will see Jesus in me and that Monkey will not be affected by this time of testing. Up until now she is doing well. I know that stress and Monkey are not a good mix especially since her seizures have returned and up until now she has had a LOT of change, and there is more on the horizon.

To recap Monkey’s changes November 2010 we lost Cinny, our beloved daycare provider, Mommy is now home with her, her seizures have returned, and beginning Monday we will start with a new 1-1 riding to and from school and a new paraprofessional at school. WOW! Change…here we come! Maybe God is helping Monkey to become used to change so she will be able to handle it smoothly for whatever He has planned for us. I am trying to look at this positively. J