Put God First - Partner Second - Children Third (Couple Spiritual Fellowship 2018)

This was our living testimony how God tested us during our couple retreat.

The day before our departure to Surabaya, our youngest child was not feeling well in the afternoon and it got worse in the evening and when we saw a doctor that night, he was diagnosed with HFMD.
Our heart was suddenly heavy.
We were torn whether to drop our retreat or to go ahead with the plan.

On that night, we prayed to God asking for His mercy to heal our son and keep our family safe and healthy and we surrendered to Him.
On the day of our departure, our youngest son was getting better event hough he's not fully recovered.
We decided to go ahead with our retreat.
During our journey, we always kept our children and our parents who took care of our children in prayer.

But life never gives us sweet all the time, on Friday morning just before we went to our retreat place, we received not so good news that our second son was starting feeling not well but the good news our youngest son has recovered fully.
We only kept him in prayer and instructed our parents what to do.

When our retreat was in the peak which was on Saturday evening, we received another news that our first born was in high fever and vomited. It was an irony, we enjoyed fine dining and on the other side, our children were suffering.

In that moment, we had three choices
1. Blame God - We have followed Him, we prayed to Him to take care of our family but what we got is the opposite.
2. Blame ourselves and our partner, to see our children were sick, it's heart broken for every parents, we wished we could be there with them.
3. Live in the moment, we decided to live in the moment. We enjoyed the companionship of each other, we found the joy and strength even though we were facing the challenges.

On Sunday, we finally received a piece of good news that our sons were all getting well.

In the end, we have chosen what is right and God has granted the healing to our children.

This was a good reminder that in every situation we should put God first, our partner second and the children third.

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