I don't really have much to post about. Jordan comes home in a month. Slowly, ever so slowly, this deployment is ending.
I've been sort of obsessing lately over the fact that we're a multi-religion family. Of course, as you may know, when we were married, I was a good Christian girl. Islam hadn't come into my life until the beginning of this year. I love Islam, Alahu Akbar. That means Allah is the Greatest. I love worshipping God this way. So far, Jordan has been incredible about it. We have agreed to simply disagree. He wants me to be happy and comfortable in my religion and the way I worship and he supports me no matter what. I guess there have been moments that he has been embarassed that I hijab. I guess that's kind of why I stopped. I don't want to embarrass him. I still hijab during salat, but other than that, no one would even know I was a muslim. I haven't tried to convert him to Islam, and he hasn't tried to convert me back to Christianity.
He made a valid suggestion the other day about how we need to bring God back into our relationship to save it. I brushed him off immediately thinking that bringing God into our relationship was the last thing we wanted to do considering our different beliefs. I wonder now, is there a way we could do that? Is there a way that we can unite again using God? Even if we believe two different things? Sigh. I don't know. I think that it will only open up a whole new can of worms that we really just want to stay shut.
I don't know much about this topic- I wish I knew more people who are in this same situation but I don't. Maybe it would open a can of worm but I think it would be possible to find a way to do that- make God first in your life/marriage again even though you both don't believe in all the same things with your religions. That's one thing I have trouble with in today's world- there's all these religions and sometimes I wonder if we really do serve the same God (Jewish, Muslim, and Christianity). I like to think we do and that we just believe a little differently about what happened in the Bible. Know that I believe you two can make this marriage work out- it'll be hard but it'll be worth the journey! I love ya, Chrissy!
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