Originally posted on Facebook on Saturday, June 14, 2025.

It's 4:00 AM.
The night is starting to wane.

I stir. Sleep has left me.
The feelings and thoughts begin to creep in.

I'm sad.
Even though I know the accident wasn't my fault (I've rehearsed it a thousand times), I feel responsible for all the suffering this has caused my wife.

It was her car. Now it's gone.
Dealing with insurance has been a nightmare. And on top of all that, she has to buy a new one. Interest rates aren't what they were.

The added stress is visible.
And it's all my fault.

Then, I feel the brush of her arm moving across the bed.
She extends her hand for me to hold.

That was such a ministry to me.

Her outstretched hand said, "I'm with you—through it all."

This is the ministry of the wife—the rib of support, always beside.

This is where I want to be with God, where circumstances do not present any risk of my refusing His outstretched hand.

I want to say, "I'm with You—through it all."

Because being with You is what I want—ABOVE ALL, come what may. Together, we can deal with everything else.

"Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ"
– Philippians 3:8

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