I waited 46 years for my husband to share my faith - I thought I wasn’t praying right

Devoted wife June Jay spent 46 years praying that her husband would accept Jesus into his life… and then one day he did.

Having my husband, Godfrey share my faith in Jesus was a longing that I felt would never be attained. I prayed that Jesus would reveal himself, but this seemed to be an unanswerable quest. I wondered if it was because I didn’t pray often enough or for long enough? When I prayed, should I pray that he would have a Bartimaeus moment? Or maybe he would just stumble across our Lord in an everyday moment? But, as so many of us know, that’s not always how Jesus works.

I didn’t grow up in a Christian family, but after a two-year courtship with my now husband, Godfrey, I knew that I wanted a church wedding. I had to be christened as an adult before the vicar would agree to marry us. We married in February 1977 when I was just 19 and my husband was 22.