What areas of our lives are most important to you? HDIFAMA?

Dear LORD:

Thank you for our wonderful relationship. Help us to set our priorities correctly in alignment with your priorities. Amen!

MDDL:

Your MEQ today was being so cuddly in the bed this morning and you sweet apology for being naughty yesterday. It means a lot to me that you are willing to be so vulnerable. I love it when you want to cuddle in the bed with me too!

The areas that I feel are most important in our lives are:

1. Maintaining our relationship, including Retrouvaille, dating, spending time together and the like. Romantic stuff, in other words. This is very, very important to me. I cannot begin to tell you how important. It is my heart to be with you and spend time together. Just hanging out like we are doing today is totally fun for me. I think it is also terribly important for us to take time and be together as a couple.
2. Our children, especially Jeanae, are pretty important too. Jeanae continues to need a lot of my attention. Last night she talked to me for a long time. I told you about that last night. She is unsure of herself and her place in the world. You and I both provide an important anchor for her. I want to do whatever I can to ease her transition into adulthood. As you pointed out at the ride yesterday, she has had her Job experience. She has suffered enough for one young person.
3. Health and wellness are very important to me. I want for us and our family to experience a new oasis of hope in our health. I have been terribly sick in the past few years. I have suffered a lot too, physically. I have been tired, inflamed and itchy. I have been unable to rest. I needed some relief so badly. I would have been totally willing to change my lifestyle if someone had simply told me. As we discussed this morning in the bed, I would like to somehow make a difference in other people's lives in this area. I do not know how that could happen, but as I continue to experience relief and hope I want to share it with others.

Other things kind of pale in importance from those. I do not value my job or profession very highly, for example. I am no longer terribly passionate about it. Likewise other areas of our lives. They just don't engage me as much as they used to. Listening to and making music is not a big deal anymore. The same with art. It's like I have been given a reprieve for a while to just work on those three things: Us, our children, and my health. These are the areas that are critically important to me.

The way that I feel about this is filled with hope. I have hope for us, for our daughter, and hope for me to at last experience health again for the first time in many years. My hope for us and our family is a 10. It is like I felt this morning when I woke up having slept so hard and long that my ear was sore on the pillow. I know if I wake up that way that I have slept in one position almost the entire night. That is real, healing sleep, the kind I have not had in many years. Waking up that way on a new day fills me with hope. Seeing the beautiful sky and feeling my skin clearing, and my mind and heart lifting fills me with hope. Seeing you being so sweet and gentle, want to be close, being soft and warm, fills me with hope. Looking at our daughter sitting on the couch with me, talking openly about her life and her heart fills me with hope.

I have hope for us and our family, and for myself. That is my strongest feeling about these areas that are important to me in our lives.

Love,
Me