Dear and sweet sister of my heart, Janine
You are so young and still so attractive and necessary to your family. There are strengths in you that are well trained by the strains on your own life and experiences of which you have privately revealed, which bring pains that are not unlike the many undisclosed sufferings us women are by the Plan and Love of God, set to experience as we learn the depths of love we are meant to accompany, not so much to endure for we don’t have the strength being the weaker vessel yet our suffering are to make us, yield, not to resist, but to trust, not to break as we see our loved ones suffer and break, but to continue on with them through every moment they suffer. That God puts us into such circumstances is actually our GIFT and God knows our weaknesses! Four women and John the beloved Disciple stood at the Cross of our Lord.
Manuela comes to mind right now for her silent, obedient Godly, discrete companionship and help ministered to Ray, her husband who has revealed to us the Spirit of our God in and through his disclosures made visible and endearing and enduring to our hearts and minds. I recall Ray saying in one of his conferences, how he was so grateful for the wisdom of Manuela and that this virtue was prized above any more carnal appearances that might disguise the vacancy of spiritual bankruptcy beneath more worldly types of woman. Well, Ray did not say it like that, and what he did say just resonated in me the way I’ve explained it here. I believe Ray sees beneath the surface to the heart and soul of his wife, and must most surely love her as is his command to, from God his Head. How wonderful that we are all in the embrace of the Spirit of God, through this couple, through our Lord and in His Word.
Blessings
Arc