Find Your Way Back...

Have you ever been lost?
Thank God for GPS, seriously. I have the worst sense of direction and hate going places alone. I get so turned around and frustrated that I get overwhelmed, ready to cry and sometimes ready to go back home.
Round and round. Turn down the wrong street. Read the map or directions wrong. No street signs. Bad weather. Night time. Frustration. Screaming. Tears...
Then, all of a sudden, I'm right back on the right path. It's kind of weird. I spend all that time freaking out, just to find my way right back to where I was supposed to be.
I hope that your sense of direction when you travel is a lot better than mine. But, more than that, I hope that your sense of direction in your marriage is excellent as well.
People grow and so do marriages. It's a journey. Not a race, where you are trying to beat a few people to the end, but a journey. The terrain changes, the weather changes, even you change when you go on long treks. As you go along, you learn things along the way, or at least, you should. And while we are trekking, we start off with our husbands, going along at the same pace. We keep in step for a while and then we trip over rocks and climb mountains, which may leave him in the lead sometimes and us in the lead other times. We may get so lost that we can't even see our husbands anymore.
But we have to know that its always to our benefit to find our way back to each other.

Romans 14:1 & 2

Welcome with open arms fellow believers who don’t
see things the way you do.

And don’t jump all over them every time they do
or say something  you don’t agree with

—even when it seems that they are strong on opinions
 but weak in the faith department.

 Remember, they have their own history to deal with.

Treat them gently.

We should make up our minds to journey together. It may be hard at first, but if we put our minds to it and work together with our husbands, we can hold hands and stay in step together, like an extended double potato sack race without all the hopping around. We fall together, we run together, be brave the elements together. And during those times when we are too far ahead to be seen or our husbands are too far ahead for us to see, we remain patient and understanding. Jumping to conclusions don't help any aspect of progress. Neither do temper tantrums, for that matter. Be happy when your husband makes progress in his individual life. Cheer him on like you want him to do for you. Part of working together is anticipating the next move of your teammate.
If you and your husband seem to be traveling journeys, get together and figure out how to get back to each other. Always remember the saying: "The race is not given to the swift or the strong, but the one that endures 'til the end". It's not about who gets there first; it's about taking the journey together. If you get lost, don't stay lost.
Find your way back to each other...