Give Your Husband This When a Wave of Crisis Hits

The favorite Tazo tea in our cupboard is “calm”. I guess if you steep the teabag long enough it soothes your very soul?

I recently read about John and Charles Wesley whom God used as tools in the first American Great Spiritual Awakening. They were traveling from Europe to America when a huge storm came up that could have sunk the ship. In his book, Implosion, Joel Rosenberg says:

“Everyone aboard was terrified -all but a group of Moravian Christians. These Moravian believers didn’t seem bothered by the wind or the waves. Rather, they sang songs and remained calm through the entire ordeal. The Wesley brothers were intrigued by such depth of faith.” It was the example of these believers that resulted in the Wesley brothers choosing to follow Christ.

A few weeks ago my husband got a call at 5:30 in the morning. It was his mother saying her brother was seriously ill, so my husband said he would fly with her immediately from our home in Montana to Tucson, Arizona.

It was all chaos as we had to think about packing and buying plane tickets in one hour’s time. I could see his wide-eyed look, trying to wake up so early and get moving so quickly, to say nothing of the heavy weight of anticipating whether his uncle would still be alive when they got to Arizona.

So I gave my husband my calmness.

I quietly moved to take care of things. I spoke to let him know what I was accomplishing. I tried to anticipate what he needed and take care of it for him. I prayed as I worked, asking God’s favor over plane departure, comfort for my mother-in-law, and strength for my husband.

When gale-force winds strike a man, the best thing a woman can do is to maintain a steady faith and a spirit that sings peace in the middle of crashing waves.