Marriage Monday ~ A reminder to pray for my husband

In January of 2011 I wrote a series of Marriage Monday posts on praying for our husbands. The series was a great reminder of why we should pray for our husbands.

Over the last several months I have been reminded once again why I should pray for Jeff. He has been going through some very stressful issues. Like David, Jeff is a "man after God's own heart". He strives to follow God's leading & direction for his life. Many times lately he has told me that just because something is difficult & and just because he doesn't want to do it doesn't mean he has the right to tell God NO.

I admire my husband for being able to stand up for what is right and follow God despite the worldly consequences.

"Walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in love." Ephesians 4:1,2

Click on this link to read my post on Praying for our Husbands as Spiritual leaders.


Some ideas for supporting your Husband as Spiritual Leader of your home:

• pray for your husband multiple times a day
• text &/or  email him verses that you have found during quiet time & bible study
• leave encouraging notes for him to find later in the day

How do you encourage or pray for your husband as Spiritual Leader of your home?

In His Calm,

Mary

Thankful Thursday - Not so patiently waiting...

Waiting...

I don't like waiting. I get impatient & want an answer & a fix to my issue now.

But God. 

God says "Wait... I am doing a new thing. Sit patiently... silently... calmly."

"Let me work in you & through you. Let me love you."

"Feel the Grace I have given you. Be the Grace to others I have been to you."

Its hard... but I wait. And while I wait I learn to be patient. I allow His Presence to Calm the turmoil inside me.

Continuing the Joy Dare #540 - #545

• waiting & the pain that comes with it
• watching my husband be the man God has called him to be
• curiosity & the tears that come from learning a lesson
• reviewing a book that is speaking to me in more ways than I could imagine
• Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don't try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way. James 1:2-4
• knealing face down laying it at God's feet

Taking the Joy Dare of counting 1000 gifts with Ann at A Holy Experience 

In His Calm,

Mary

Marriage Monday ~ Spring Cleaning ~ Dreaming

Good Monday Morning to you!

How is your spring cleaning going? Did you get the cobwebs & dust cleaned out of your home last week?

How about the cobwebs in the communication with your husband? Did you wipe away the dust and dig into deeper levels of communication?

I must admit I didn't reach my goal last week. I had grand plans to begin the deep clean starting with the cobwebs & dust but it didn't get done. A sick daughter, an unplanned field trip and life interrupted those plans.

But, I'm happy to say Jeff & I did dust off the cobwebs of our communication. And oh what a joy it was!

• I love hearing what is going on in my husband's heart! 
• I love knowing how I can pray more effectively for him! 
• I love the intimacy that comes with deep communication!

In those moments of sharing and opening our hearts to each other we began to dream.

• We dreamed & talked of ways to spruce up our house.
• We dreamed of life for our family.
• We dreamed & talked about the path God has called us to.

How about you? Do you dream with your husband? Do you talk about what your future holds as a family? As a couple? As an individual?

As you're making plans to spruce up your home while spring cleaning, why not take some time to dream & plan with your husband. Who knows what path you may head down.

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In His Calm,

Mary