Hooray for Family Time
Well for the last few weeks I have been working 12
hours shifts 7 days a week from 6pm-6am. What did this
mean to me? No family time at all, and this was just
something that I was not very happy about. Over the last few
months I have taken notice to just how important my family
time was to me, and to work those long hours and not really
be able to see my family was killing me.
My family consists not only of my wife and children,
whom I love with all my heart, but that family also
encompasses my church family whom I look forward to
seeing throughout the week at services. I always make the
comment on Wednesday's or Sunday's to my kids that it is
time to go do some Jesus loving when we wake up for the
day. It really broke me down not to be able to attend any
services for the last couple weeks.
Wednesday of this week was the first service I had
attended since rotation ending and I can tell you I feel
spiritually right again with the world. I wake up more refreshed
and ready to go. I try not to start arguments with my wife, and
do everything to have more patience with the kids, which is
very hard to do since I have started helping out with the
teaching aspect of our household this week. What I can say is
that when I am not worshipping my God in His house I can
definitely feel the emotional and spiritual strain that is put on
me.
Through all this though I know that He does love me
and look out for my family and myself and continue to guide
us even if I can't attend a service. I received word yesterday
that I had been accepted into Liberty University in the
Religion Studies course that I wanted and prayed about, my
oldest son seems to be coming around on the subject of
Christ and received his bible this week thanks to our friends
the Ogle's, and my wife seems to love me more each day.
Next week we will begin to incorporate a bible study that goes
along with the AWANA program that our children are in into
our daily studies so they are being flooded with the word of
God. My goal is to give my whole family to Him, which I have
already done, but now it is time to reinforce my children in the
knowledge of who God is and why he is the most important
person in the universe. Thank you for reading and God Bless
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