Help Her Realize Her Dreams
Theme of the Week: A Husband's Sacrifice Play
Dave Goetz
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
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Key Bible Verse: Your wife will be like a fruitful vine, flourishing within your home Psalm 128:3. Bonus Reading: Proverbs 31:10-31
When we married, I was a youth pastor in Denver. But when I decided to become a writer, Jana and I moved to the Chicago suburbs so I could take a job as an editor.
About four years later, with one child added, I became restless and began working on an MBA. I also had a book contract. So I was working full-time, going to graduate school two nights a week, and writing a book. Now we had two children, and I wasn't the one sacrificing; she was. The week I told her I was leaving my secure job to start my own business, she told me she was pregnant. Again, who sacrificed?
Recently Jana told me she wants to go back to school. I became unsupportive and critical. I thought, We don't have the money. You actually need to work more, because … It hadn't mattered that we didn't have the money for me to get my MBA or to start my business. I had a great opportunity to sacrifice some things I wanted to help my wife with her dreams. But I told Jana, "I know in my head that I need to do this, and it's killing me because it's so difficult." Why? Because I think about giving up my goals.
—Dave Goetz in Marriage Partnership
My Response: I could help make one of my wife's dreams come true by …
Thought to Apply: People who establish successful loving unions do so by letting the other person be a whole person, rather than forcing him or her to be only one-half of a whole.—Ari Kiev (psychologist & investment coach)
Adapted from our sister publication Marriage Partnership (Winter/06).
Copyright © 2008 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.Click here for reprint information on Men of Integrity. 1 of 1
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