Thankful

Hello, and thanks for taking time to visit :) For those who know me, know that my husband and I have been through some really rough times in the past. Ryan hadn't been spiritually strong in a very long time. I hadn't known what a great marriage was like and was not jealous of anyone specific, but jealous of happy couples in general. Well, the month of August, Ryan and I had decided to separate. He went to Colorado and then to Oregon and was gone the full month of August. He came back and about 2 days after he came back, God put a heart softener inside of him and he has been a TOTALLY different person. Things have been going SO good for us. I saw a change in Ryan OVERNIGHT, literally. On September 1st, he was angry because he knew that people were upset with him and he just had a lot of bad feelings. He had told me that he hadn't planned on going to church anywhere, because he just didn't care anymore. So I really didn't see much hope of us working anything out. On September 2nd (a Sunday) I was getting me and the kids ready for church and didn't even ask him if he was going to go and he got up and got ready to go to church. We got to church and meeting started. To much shock, he got down in the beginning part of meeting and prayed. I was so shocked and SO happy. This is what I had been wanting for a long time. Then towards the end of meeting, he got up and testified about how God has protected him so many times when he could have been hurt worse than he was. Anyway, it was a happy day for me. After that, he has honestly been a completely different person, in such a great way. Our marriage has been happier than it has ever been. And for the last 4-5 years, everything seemed to not work out for us, and lately, God has been working out so many things that we finally have a comforted feeling about a lot of things. God blessed Ryan with a good job, he's been there all week. He works long hours, but all the overtime should really help us get caught up on bills. Anyways, it has been about 5 years since we have been halfway this happy. Ryan got mixed up with the wrong crowd in those 5 years and it took so long to get back to a normal, christian life. I'm not saying that Ryan was the only one not living right either. I made some mistakes also. But it all is in the past and like I said, it has turned around. I'm so thankful. I had forgotten just how happy a person can be when they put God #1 in their life. We have been visiting several different times. Yesterday, we were over at brethern's house from about 1:30 to 9:00 visiting about different things in the bible. I got so much rejoicing from it! I just can't stress enough how THANKFUL I am that things are going in the right direction for us, finally. I owe EVERYTHING to God. He is the only thing that has worked all of this out for us.