Happiness:
I pray that you all had a wonderful Easter. I love the reminder of the gift that God gave us when he sacrificed his Son for us. I am so unworthy but grateful for the unconditional love that I receive from God and Jesus. I had an amazing day with my family and enjoyed a beautiful church service. I can really feel the Lord working in my life and my families life. This makes me Happy!
Update #1:
My Father In Law, Mel, was moved out of the hospital and is now back at rehab. He has resumed physical therapy and his state of mind is good. It appears that he has a rare blood disease or a form of blood cancer. We won’t know which for sure until the infection in his leg is healed. He says that the food is terrible at the facility so we took him Easter dinner. That he truly enjoyed. At this point it looks like Mel will be in rehab at least another 2 weeks. Thank you all for your prayers, they are so felt and so needed.
Update #2:
For those of you that know the history of my prayers for a Christ following husband. This has become a little closer to reality. Craig and I have started reading Acts. We finished Matthew and are going to hopefully take it one book at a time. I am enjoying the reading aspect of this study. I am really enjoying the discussion aspect. My husband is a Christ follower, he knows what Jesus is all about. Now we are working on getting the bad taste of “religion” out of his mouth. 
His interest has also ignited an interest in my son. Prayers are being answered and Angels are singing. Again thank you for your prayers.
The After Pictures:
**For those of you coming from Moms, Ministry and More looking for the after pictures….Here is the post that shows my final update.**
I have to thank Stonefox (Heidi) for letting me share my story.
Theresa,
So glad to hear your updates — it looks like things are going well at the present. I’m so excited about your menfolk listening to you read scripture aloud. You know the word cannot return void!
Your weight loss journey is so inspirational. I want to start my own journey!
Thank you for the updates! Love and peace baby!
I came from Heidi’s blog.What an inspirational story! I am excited that I found your blog and will be stopping often. MAy God bless you as you are a blessing to many others.
I will pray for your father in law.
Needed inspiring. 
Praise the Lord for the growth in your hubby and son! What a blessing!
I loved reading your testimony again. I followed it back from Heidi´s blog even though I had read it before.
I finally got down past the 15 lb markNow can´t wait to see 20 lbs gone! It´s getting to be a real joy to put on my clothes.
Well, it´s off to my stationary bike and weights. LOL
Big hugs!
Hey friend, I’m so glad that you had a good Easter and to hear that God is doing so much in your life right now. Exciting! I have been really out of the blogging loop lately, but hopefully will pick that back up when the Lord permits. God is really doing some stuff in me, and I’m just trying to walk in obedience and be joyful in the process.
Hopefully we can catch up sometime soon, and by then I’ll have more of an understanding of what God is doing in me and what this season is all about. I’m so thankful that He is in control.
God bless you this week!
So glad to hear about Mel … and Craig. You know it was “religion” that kept me so angry at God for ten years. I still detest religion. People know I go to church, study and teach the bible, and when they ask me what religion I am I say, “I’m a Christian.” They usually want me to choose a denomination but I refuse to – even the denomination of the church I attend.
I understand your husband’s thoughts… religion has left a bad taste in my mouth too. Oh what the church of today has done to the story of redemption and grace. Praying for Papa God to reveal to Him HIS heart, not what he’s heard or experience in the past….
God is working in your spouse as your prayers are answered. Do not give up and really communicate your feelings on this. My Grandpa died on Good Friday and he was NOT a believer. It was very hard for our family of Believers to accept his death knowing that he did not believe in Jesus or salvation.
Grandpa was afraid to die and did not want a celebration of his life. I now live with sadness that he never accepted Christ and never turned to God, and my sister lives with guilt feeling she did not try hard enough to bring him to faith. It’s been too painful to understand, so I have not blogged about this yet. What I have felt is a really strong urge to bring people to Christ and to being them into acceptance. I’m praying on this and know the direction I want to lead, and soon I will be walking my faith into that direction.
For now, explain to your husband what it means to YOU if he is not a believer. Tell him the pain YOU would feel if he passed on suddenly without hope in his heart. I was Grandpa’s Little Girl, and I wonder if I told him how much it means for me to see him accept Jesus, if he would have done so to please his family that he loved. I’ll never know the answer. We were all afraid to make Grandpa angry, and any subject of religion sent him into a stubborn stance of self protection from the enemy.
Fight for God, Fight for Jesus and Fight for Salvation. Fight the enemy with your prayers and scriptures. Wear the Shield of Faith and allow God to do His good work in you.