My wife and I made the agreement to turn off all news, social media, and any outside consumption of COVID info for 2 weeks and possibly indefinitely. In some way, it is sad that because of this, I won't be lurking GAW--I'm not much of a poster but felt included via the lurking and upvoting over the past 9 months. I'm confident that this is the right decision.
I would appreciate your prayers for me and my marriage. My wife literally thinks I am insane, deluded to follow after Satan and the thought of divorce is crossing her mind. She has admitted to thinking of me in contempt and that our marriage is dead. I believe God lifted the veil over my eyes briefly and I saw a glimpse of His work and plan. I am convinced with every bone in my body that COVID and these mandates have the spirit of antichrist/satan behind them. My wife is pro-mandates, pro-vax, trusts gov't, pro-mask our 5 year old. I guess you can see we're at opposite ends.
Please pray for me and my marriage. Pray for me to truly have discernment and wisdom from God. I truly want to know if COVID and these mandates DO NOT have the spirit of antichrist/satan behind them. I want to know where I am wrong in any of my beliefs that are causing contention. Please also pray that if there are any evil spiritual forces acting upon me, my wife, my son and my marriage--that they be totally subdued in Jesus' name. I really want God to show me a sign that what I have awakened to is true and I really want my wife to be with me.
We're doing all we can.. counselling, pastors, marriage course, agreements in communication. I want this movie to end, but I also know.. letting it play out will be even GREATER!
I'll probably read comments to this post one last time tonight and afterwards lurk https://communities.win/c/Christianity/
Bye frens for now. See you later or in glory! Hope it's not long. From Canada.
Tell her you love her, you love your child and you want nothing more than health and happiness for you all. Admit that you don't know everything but you've read tons from both sides of the covid world and you believe there are life and death decisions before you as a family. As a family.
Just try to sound reasonable from her perspective. She is the one who will decide if she thinks you are reasonable, fair or not, so you need to show you acknowledge that there are health fears presented by covid. Only then can you say "we just can't know for sure, can we? So after all the ways to slice it, I've tried to find the place that is most likely to end in our health through all this. We may or may not get covid, and if we do get it, there are now treatments that allow almost everyone to get through it safely, and with long lasting immunity to it and all its variants. On the other hand, the vaccines are an affirmative act to expose ourselves to a new risk that is still becoming more and more concrete. Vaccine reactions are getting more well known, particularly for children, and since the vaccines have been around for less than two years, no one knows what the vaccines will do to our immune systems in the long run. This is exactly why all other vaccines have gone through years of testing before they were declared safe. Long term effects. Many vaccines in history looked good at first and then became unwound in long term testing due to deadly results. And while we don't know the long term effects of the vaccines, we now know that they aren't effective at stopping covid in the long term. So I'm taking the very unpopular position to protect us as a family. Even if you don't agree with a word I've said, please notice that I'm taking this position for us. Let's let it play out a little longer and see how the vaccines are doing with a little more time and study."
This is the position I took with my very liberal wife and she came around. It wasn't easy. We have not vaccinated our 15 year old boys and she backs that up after lots of discussion.
Arguing won't work, you need to approach every conversation with love and patience. Or your frustration and anger will lose her rather than the underlying points you are trying to make.
And yes, pray ceaselessly. Pray for God to send angels to get the demons of doubt and pride and anger and confusion off your wife and out of your house. There is a raging spiritual battle happening and I absolutely believe that you need to ask for warrior angels to remove the many demons who are hovering around your family. I have seen it work within moments when I pray for this in my own house. It is real.
May God bless you all.