Have Peace and Rest in Your Focus! Part 2

            So earlier this week, I tried to relieve my husband of a chore he would have had to do that night and after the chore was accomplished by the end of the morning, I found myself at a loss, my health and needs being compromised as a result. 

Here’s what happened.  We have a water dispenser in our house, and a five-gallon container of water sits on top, upside down.  We have five five-gallon containers and a three-gallon container (that goes on the kitchen counter) with a spout.  My husband loads them all in the car and drives to fill them when they are empty.            He asked me to go this time just to fill a few and the three-gallon container part way so it’s easy to lift, just for that day so I’d have water until he would complete the chore when he returned from working.  (I can’t carry the containers when they are filled all the way, being pregnant).  Well, I had an idea to save my husband the completing of the chore, and accepted the help of a man who was at the laundramat waiting for his clothes to dry.  The man filled the water to the brim and put the five-gallon containers in the car for me.  I knew my husband would lift them from the car to the house when he got home, but I didn’t think about it until I got home that that would mean I wouldn’t have water to drink that day!  And I hadn’t brought the three-gallon container as my husband had told me to!  (I did stay hydrated with juice we had in the fridge however.)  

My husband cares about me, and when he says something, he means it, and I need to acknowledge his care and listen to the details!  Listening to my husband and truly watching that when he tells me to do something, I find what he says he says because he cares!  It is for my own good, and I find I ought not to take matters into my own hands, and that frees me to focus on my responsibilities. 

How are you doing in the area of listening to the details of your husband’s wishes?  Do you need to watch and listen how he is out to care for you?  Don’t try to take matters into your own hands!  If you need to be alert to how he is on your side for taking care of you and need to be on his side with that, please do accept his care.