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Sometimes We Forget
 In our daily routine, coaches' wives and husbands often go separate directions. He starts a load of laundry, makes the lunches and the coffee, gets the paper, and leaves before dawn for a long commute and 12 hour workday. She wakes the children, fixes breakfast, dresses for work, drives carpool, and works 9 hours. He goes by the bank, and fills the car with gas and hopes to help with bath time and homework if he gets home in time. She prepares the meal, seeks meaningful conversation with each child, and catches up with bills and correspondence. Okay, I realize this is not a realistic division of duties, but we can dream. The point is: we have so much on our own plate that we each concentrate on our own needs. The other day I read:
Can you imagine praying for the right side of your body and not the left? If the right side is not sustained and protected and if it falls, it's going to bring down the left side with it. The same is true with you and your husband. If you pray for yourself and not him, you will never find the blessings and fulfillment you want. What happens to him happens to you and you can't get around it.
The quote comes from The Power of A Praying Wife by Stormie O'Martian. The chapters are short. Reading one each day, and praying for your husband through this busy season will bless you in ways you can't imagine now. I have read my copy at least three times, and always marvel at the creative insights I learn, and the tenderness that results.
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