Thoughts

I am seven weeks into the power of a praying wife book.  I LOVE it!  Really, I do.  This book is amazing.  I'm also enjoying the time in the Word.
This week's chapter is on "HIS MIND".  I'm not sure what you're husbands are like, but mine believes he can only do what he already knows.  Nothing more.  Simple as that.  No, it's not a "can't teach an old dog new tricks" kind of mantra, he was never believed in as a child.  Sure his parents were encouraging and supportive, but never allowed him to step out of his comfort zone and spread his own wings.  He only rode on the coat-tails of his parents.  What they did, he did....and so on.  I'm sure he's not the only child to have been raised this way, we parents tend to stick with what we know.  HOWEVER, you could have been a child like me and did it anyway.  No, when I was a child I was NOT rebellious.  (that's also not sarcasm either)  Really, I wasn't.  I wanted nothing more but to please my mother.  Rarely happened.  I kept trying.  The result was strength, empowerment, and knowledge to know I could go on without her.  Now that I'm an adult, I don't want to go on without her.  I'm sure now, she would be able to learn a bit from me:  YES marriages can work.  YES you can raise children who love you AND listen to you.  YES, God loves YOU all the time.
Ah, off the rabbit trail and back to the topic:  Dan's Mind.  It's definitely a battlefield in there.  Until this morning I really believed it to be a boring place, his mind.  Why?  Regardless of my level of submission in our household, the decisions still ultimately fall into my lap.  They're like stray kittens you accidentially fed once...they keep coming back.  I don't want them.  Thankfully, God is indeed dealing in that area. 
Now, (well, sometimes) when I ask why Dan made a particular decision about something, he realizes I just want to know how he came to that conclusion.  Did he use God?  Himself?  Someone else's path?  I'm only asking to get to know my husband a bit more.  I have no alterior motives.  Anything I can do to wriggle myself into knowing him more is all the better for me. 
I love him.  If I'm able to understand his thought process a bit more each time, I don't have to ask HOW he came to a particular decision.  Eventually, I will know he asked God. 
Simple as that.
Someday.

one good thing my husband did:  Bathed the kids so I could make us a late dinner