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Loving Your Husband
I just read an excellent article over at Passionate Homemaking about Letting Go of Unrealistic Expectations. This is a lesson we could all learn I am sure! So, hop on over and see what Lindsay has to say. And with Valentine’s Day just days away… maybe you’ll avoid disappointment by not assuming your husband can read your mind!
Tomorrow the weather forecast for Harlan, Kentucky is yet another winter snow storm. We are expecting 8 or more inches of snow! So, we spent time this afternoon moving logs for the fireplace down to the lower furnace room to keep it dry so we can stay warm. I am so thankful for the sunshine today! We have had so much rain and snow over the last few weeks … months, I have been needing some sunshine! We are about to head out to get the horses ready for the storm as well.
Helping prepare for this storm by cheerfully moving logs is something easy I can do that blesses my husband. It doesn’t take too much effort but yeilds tremendous rewards. What can you do to be a blessing this weekend for your husband?
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I am joining my sister and friend at True Hearts Marriage ministry in a Valentine Countdown. We are making an effort to be loving and appreciative of our husbands and nurture our covenant by dropping “love drops” for the next 14 days. Love drops are extra expressions of love. We get so busy with life and we get caught in a rut of routine expressions of love. The quick peck to say hello or goodbye, on the phone we say “bye, love you,” and we call each other honey and babe; but is still easy to forget to love. We need to look a little harder and what they need. We need to look a little closer at what they do. And then thank them, appreciate them, spend time doing their thing, wow them! This challenge is just for women, True Hearts is a husband and wife team and Jef, the husband, is challenging men to step up the the plate and out love us women with acts of thoughtfulness and service. . . it’s a beautiful challenge to try to outserve each other.
I also have been bringing in some wood for the fire. We have cold days and yet we have some warm days I love the winter Eqinox and yet Spring Eqinox is March 21 every year. Some times in the freezing cold I love to think about how spring begins on the other side of the earth when our winter begins. I think that would be China. Life is full of so many mysteries. I am thankful to be alive . There are so many retreats going on through our chapel right now. I have been to these before when we were younger, and I remember yelling to the top of my lungs one morning about something that was causing me pain. It was hard to relax around strangers. My husband told me recently he would love to get away to a couples retreat. The best part for us was the friends we made and the group lectures and Bible study. I like what you said about trying to outserve each other as husband and wife. We have also been part of that study and for the most part that is how we have made it this far. Gods will Cora
Richard Steele:
Loving Each Other. This is both the husband’s (Col. 3:19) and the wife’s duty (Tit. 2:4). Love is the great reason and comfort of marriage. This love is not merely romance, but genuine and constant affection and care for each other “fervently with a pure heart” (1 Pet. 1:22). Marital love cannot be based on beauty or wealth, for these are passing, and not even on piety, for that may decay. It must be based upon God’s command which never changes. The marriage vow obliges “for better or for worse,” and married persons ought to consider their own spouses the best in the world for them. Marital love must be durable, lasting even after death has severed the bond (Prov. 31:12). This true-hearted love brings true content and comfort in its train. It guards against adultery and jealousy. It prevents or lessens family trouble. Without it, the marriage is like a bone out of joint. There is pain until it is restored.
I have really enjoyed reading “The heart of her husband”. Our love walk is always put to the test. We may win some, but we will also lose some , but as long as we keep coming after God and putting him first, He will perfect all that concerns us. We must remember to love our spouse just as God loves us. Will we fail? Of course we will at times. But there will be lessons learned as we glean from them, and we will bear fruits of righteousness!!! Our marriage is where God is preparing us to be His pure bride without spot or wrinkle. What a better place for God to work on our love walk than in our marriage! I also write about marriage in my website at http://www.herdreams.org. I write devotionals and poetry, so I would love to share my website with you. I thank God for your website . It is a blessing to me and many others as well. God bless you and keep you! Sisters in Christ