A few weeks ago I had one of those hard marriage days. You know those ones...the HARD ones. Heart wrenching pain ones. I love my husband and we believe in a gracious God. And so through it we became stronger and closer.
But it really opened my eyes to my own life...my role as wife...my faith. And I realized how selfish I have been for probably the past year...yep, year. I have shared tid-bits of this struggle with you all...trying to find my purpose, dealing with difficult people, being okay with being at home...and for a moment I was able to get through it only to find myself in the same slump a few weeks later.
I could not figure out what it would take to get myself in the right direction again. As days and weeks and months passed I tried and tried to figure it out. And then that HARD day came...
Broken, on my knees, surrendering all of who I am...turning over my life again to a Lord I once passionately followed. It was like he was saying, "Ashley, what is it going to take for you to follow me again?" Apparently heart wrenching pain...
My husband and I are good. I love him more than anything else on this earth. We have been able to move forward. And though it was hard, it was what I needed. I needed to be broken. My eyes have opened to the person I was created to be...and it is time to start living like it.
I recently stumbled upon this post I wrote back in 2009...weeks before I got married. I was a starry eyed soon to be married woman. I was so excited for the life ahead of me...the calling I felt on my life...reading it again reminded me of the woman I want to be and once had my eyes set on.
My heart is fuller than it has been in a long time. It is sometimes those difficult seasons that you just have to suck it up and get through. But I have changed. I finally have the joy again that only comes from the Lord and I am ready to live my life.
How have hard times changed you?
