I am a selfish person (as I believe most people are). I have a certain way that I want things done and certain things that I want and I want it to go my way. I have been learning over the past year that there is actually a lot more happiness and satisfication and freedom in not getting my way. God has given us a huge freedom and one of the choices that we have is to put our needs and desires first or putting others before ourselves.
I am learning to be content whatever my situation and I don't have it all figured out yet, but I am a work in progress. It is empowering to think that I can choose to not care about getting what I want. If I think that my husband is not treating me the way that I wish he would, I have the freedom to be unselfish and love on him instead. I have the freedom with God's strength to put my husband and children before myself. I can choose to let my flesh suffer and act as the loving wife that God wants me to be.
When we act in the way that God desires, even if we suffer in the flesh, we will be rewarded and much happier in the long run. And if we continue to make the right choices eventually our feelings will follow.
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