For my Wife

My friend, Jonnett Barrick, is getting married ( http://jonngirlonamission.blogspot.com/2012/02/gettin-married.html ). One of the things I found most interesting in her blog is how she has prayed for her future husband for two years without even knowing who he was. I have often prayed for the future spouse of my children but have never prayed for my own future spouse, until now. I started this practice myself, praying for the woman that Papa God is preparing for me to serve and praying that He would prepare me to be a godly, loving, leading husband, and have found an unexpected peace concerning my uncertain relational future (for those of you who don't know, I am quite single at the moment).

As I have begun preparing myself for that role, I was lead to go to the Real Marriage Tour conference by Mark and Grace Driscoll. This two day event, March 23-24 at NewSpring Church, is based on their book Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together. Being as they will be the primary speakers, I began following Mark (@PastorMark) and Real Marriage Tour (@RMTour) on twitter. Reading Mark's post one day, I followed a link to an article that talked about writing in a journal to your future spouse. Ironically enough, I have a small journal book that I have been trying to decide what to use for. God has impressed on me the need to start using this journal to write notes to, thoughts about, and prayers for my future wife. It might sound a little strange, but I believe that this is what I am suppose to do.

So now I begin to intentionally seek the well being of my future wife over myself, which is exactly what I have learned I will need to do in order to have a lasting, happy and fulfilled marriage. Needless to say, I am again very excited to see what God has planned for me, and her.