Every man has gifts because he is in God’s image. Abilities, giftedness is there; you can trust that it is.
My husband, Eric, worked as an electrician's helper when we
first married; the pay was minimum wage and we lived on it about four years in
a rented mobile home; our first two sons were born in those years. Work he did
not know existed came to him just after our third son was born. Eric had a
natural bent toward organization and Logistics. His education at Boston
University in secondary science, work as a Radioman on the U.S.S. Ponchatoula
and now his interest in electricity all qualified him for a career in the Navy.
If it takes time for interests and gifts to come out, listen
carefully to your husband day after day. Watch him with fresh hope and vision.
Look deeper than the surface you will discover his strengths, his gifts. He
will be very encouraged if he suspects you are seeing him this way. Passion will
rise again; fascinating layers to his personality he may not even know are
there.
Beyond his
encouraged persona, you have hope, too. When you met and agreed to marry him,
you saw something important and worthy of love and respect. With years of
marriage, with the disappointments, you may have forgotten all the reasons. But
no matter what he has or has not accomplished yet you can begin again to
believe because he is created in the image of God.
Look and listen. Focus. A spark, an interest he
demonstrates. Being closest to him, you may begin to recognize it! His
uniqueness needs pride from you. Your power is because you are created in the image
of God! “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him;
male and female created he them.” Genesis 1:27.
For the minute, forget the past, forget the attitude of
anyone else and think just of yourself, him, and God! Once you “see” with
spiritual eyes and you decide to encourage what you see in your husband, you
may just make the difference in his future . . . and in yours . . . in the
future of your world.
With fifty years together, the solidarity, the agreement and love, Eric and I share covers even how we disagree. It has come from the Bible.
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