âYou said you would take me to the airport!â I narrowed my eyes at my husband.
Jeff frantically scrolled the calendar on his phone. âI must have forgotten to enter the flight,â he said. âI canât take you now. I have an appointment.â
âBut you offered just yesterday!â I said. âHow could you forget?â I turned away, muttering, âI should have known.â
âShould have known what?â Jeff snapped.
âThat you donât care enough to remember!â I said.
âThatâs not fair!â Jeff said. âYou know my heart medication makes me forgetful. This isnât my fault. Youâve been mad at me since the minute you walked in the door.â
âThere you go againâtelling me how I feel!â
Another day, another argument. For two decades, Jeff and I had been happily married. Now every conversation turned into a battle. Our stress was through the roof.
Ever since Jeff had lost his job a few years earlier, heâd been depressed and listless. I was sick of trying to pull him back up. I couldnât remember the last time weâd had fun. It was as if someone had swapped out the man Iâd fallen in love with for this shell of a person. I didnât know what to do.
âJeff is the nicest guy you will ever meet,â a friend had said when she set us up on a blind date.
âThatâs the man youâll marry,â a voice said in my mind the night of our first date. Jeff and I had tons in common. We never ran out of things to talk about. Everything was fun with him. We fell in love, married and had two wonderful kids.
Jeff had been new to faith when we started dating. Iâd become a Christian as a teenager but then let my faith fade since graduating from college. Jeff and I found a church and committed to building our relationship with God. It paid off. Through the highs and lows of life as busy working parents, our love remained rock-solid. I came to believe that the voice in my mind had been a message from God.
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