After two years of hurt and separation, Jimmy Ruth Matthews welcomed her husband home.

This was based on obedience, not on strong feelings.

I told him, I said, Lauren, I don't feel anything for you.

And he said, well, you know, I don't feel anything for you either.

And we both agreed that it was right for us to be together as husband-wife.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Monday, February 9, 2015.

Here's some of what we've heard over the last few days from Jimmy Ruth and Lorne Matthews.

I really feel like God's called me to be a gospel musician.

And my dream is to marry a woman that wants to travel and sing

gospel music. If you think you'd like to do that too, I'd like you to be my wife. This was our

first date. I began to get puffed up in pride.

Because of my piano gift, I thought that that was my identity.

I think there was probably a clutchiness in me.

I had to keep everything perfect.

So you were controlling.

Yes, I was.

This woman's friends, the children were friends of our kids. I remember one time she was cutting my hair and we were alone. I was. This woman's friends, children were friends of our kids.

I remember one time she was cutting my hair and we were alone.

She was a beautician. She had a little shop in her basement.

And she said, having you figured it up by now and we love with her?

The next thing, you know, we're talking about we divorce our mates and we get married in, in folks' love.

So I came to my wife after 18 years of marriage, and I got the big head.

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