In His Time

I LOVE how God appoints exact people and exact minutes, down to the second into our lives!  I went to a potluck at the park today and sat with the same couple of people the whole time and NEVER would I have known that the last 15 minutes of the day (when I finally didn't rush out of there, but relaxed)...would be exactly the time and one-on-one listening a lady needed!  Thank you God for relaxing me and teaching me how to listen.  Thank you for her honesty and open heart to seek you in this difficult time.  It is a time like this that makes me so excited that I do this blog because I forget what a passion and joy it stirs in me to encourage a marriage!  Thank you God for today...every day is a gift that you've been given, live the most of your life every minute you're in it...Lord, I lift her up to you and thank you for my forwardness to lift her up to you in prayer because YOU are the provider and the constant in our lives.  I love you Lord!!!!!  John 15:16

A Lesson in Listening

My husband taught me a lesson in listening this week:)  We were sharing about our life around the house and he mentioned that he feels bad on the days that I get up to go to work earlier than him and I fix him breakfast before I leave and get home just in time to make dinner...And on a good day, I'll remember to make him a lunch to take with him too.  I LOVE doing this because working out of the home is not ideal for me, but since I can't be home, I want to do all I can to serve him so he will notice I'm gone as little as possible.  So I told him not to feel bad because I love serving him like this.  Since I can't serve him all day long in the home, it's one of the joys I can still have even though I'm working outside the home.

Well, this morning it was my husband's turn to get up and go to work early and I usually lay there groggy, but awake to talk in case he wants to.  So he looked over at me, saw my eyes open and asked, "Are you wide awake?" to which I responded, "Yeah, pretty much."  So he then asked, "Would you make me some breakfast to take with me?"  "Of course," so I jumped out of bed and then realized I guess I wasn't as awake as I thought I was, but collected myself and joyously made my husband a breakfast bowl he could eat in the car on his way to work. 

Then I thought about it, HE HEARD ME this week when I told him how it brings me joy to serve him, never mind that it's a couple hours later when I usually do it, I would never turn him down!  Thank you Lord that my husband can ask me to serve him and that I can give with a happy heart.  I love you Lord and it's all because of the joy you fill me with that allows it to overflow onto my husband!  Deuteronomy 16:15

Be Glad You Did

The most common thing I say is: Live your life as a Bride to both your husband and Jesus Christ, you'll be glad you did!  But when things actually happen and remind me that this is true, WOW, I still get blown away. I am so thankful for how the Lord works (Isaiah 55:8-9).  I live my life striving to be a Proverbs 31 woman and it is such a precious feeling to learn that it is possible, little by little.  I used to think no woman could be all that, but if you just keep trying and keep relying on your faith in God and keep trying to live like Jesus, you TOO will begin feeling that you are fulfilling your calling in life as a wife!

What joy it brings me to encourage my husband, talk wonderfully of him (Proverbs 31:23), treat him well and serve him generously rather than being selfish with my time, mind and body to get what I want in life...it's not easy, but if you make it a habit then on those hard days it just happens because you only know how to treat him with love and respect.  I'm still a major work in progress, but I am already receiving the benefits from this unselfish living.  My husband now wants to please ME, encourage ME, talk wonderfully to ME, treat ME well and serve ME generously for what have long been the desires of my heart.  I just had to wait according to God's timing.