This is a wonderful thread.
Please continue to pray as this was a bad, bad day.
Today was a bad day but I guess that depends on how you look at it.
Beginning on Thursday, I called my husband and left him some messages to get back with me as the kids were in need of some things--clothes, shoes, etc. He never called me back but late last night he called my oldest and asked him about it. My son did not say much but told me about it. I phoned husband back and left him a message (he never answers his phone if I call) and told him that since I was the one who called him, he should have called me back. I explained what they needed and even gave him a time of when to be here.
Today came and went and my son said he needed money and I told him I did not have any. What did I do? I was no longer going to play chicken and put my son into the car and drove over to that house. Without getting out of my car and staying on the street behind his car, I called his cell which he would not answer so I honked my horn. Out comes his girlfriend's married daughter out onto her driveway. She told me to stay away from her mom, and I asked her how she would like it if her husband were cheating on her (she is married with two small kids and it is the daughter's house). She said she could care less if her husband was cheating on her. I told her it certainly mattered to me. My husband would not step foot beyond the doorway and I told him to get out here, his kids need him, etc. He told me to go home. I told him that I had called him. I was so mad that I told him he deserved whatever punishment the judge gives him in two weeks. Right when we got home, the girls told me their dad called them, said he would come over on Sunday to take them out and that he loved them. Now, why would it take me going over there for him to call his daughters? He never calls them!
My cousin's wife had called and I was so upset and she talked to me for awhile and then she called my husband. She said they talked for awhile and he was attentive and polite. She asked him if he loved me and he said he did not. She asked when he came to this conclusion and he said he did not know. She asked him if he was ever happy and he said he was. He seems to think I bad mouth him and she told him nothing could be further than the truth. Then he told her that all he wants is to be with his kids. She told him that she suggests he talk to me, make things right and go home, that the woman he is with is no good. He said not a word but he did say he could not talk to me and she asked why not and he said he did not know. She told him to write me a letter and he said I would use it against him. I told her all of this is strange coming from a man who told me he loved me less than a year ago. He told her he had no one to talk to, no friends, nothing. She told him she would be happy to talk to him and told him she would pray for him, etc. He told her I need counseling and she told him that I had been going to counseling for awhile now.
A few hours after that, husband called our son and he said he would be at our house between 12-1 on Sunday to pick the kids up but refuses to come into the house.
My husband has been captured by Satan. My middle child will not go out with him because he has told her that all of the kids were mistakes that should have never been. He has flipped his mind. She is a very strong child and very spiritual.
The strange thing is that he did not tell my cousin that he wants a divorce.
Life really has a way of throwing us some curveballs but God is always there for us.
I'm sorry. the Lord defends widows and orphans, which you are essentially in this case of abandonment. I will pray for you again, as I know many will. Trust the Lord.
Father, show yourself strong in their behalf.... Help them seek you with a whole heart. Give them great faith. give the Mom wisdom to know where the children need to be. Put a hedge of protection about them all. Father, please provide what they need. Thank you for the relatives that help. Be a shield and reward for this family. Rebuke the enemy for their sake. Protect them with your Holy Angels. In the Name of Jesus, I ask you to lighten the burden and oppression over this Mom and children. Help them to see your hand move in their behalf. Keep the evil one far away. Give wisdom, again to Mom about the children. In Jesus' name i ask this.
And I'm seconding periwinkle's prayer for you.
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Many hugs for you, and sincere prayers for your husband's spiritual healing.
O Lord, send your angels to guard this family. Like you touched so many troubled people and brought them healing from the darkness, touch hsmomx3's husband, and release him from the darkness touching his soul, so that he may be open to the truth and love and commitment he made. May the gifts of love, and forgiveness and reconcilliation touch this family in just the right way so that they may be bonded together as a family in the way you would want them to.
O Father Almighty, I ask this in the name of your son Jesus, Amen.