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6 Ways to Lift Up Your Husband When He’s Down
I couldn’t say when I first noticed. We were in the midst of so many trials at the time that it’s hard to tell when it really began. Troubles in the church. Hardships at home. Challenges at work. So much was swirling about us that I didn’t notice how heavy it was on his soul. But then one day I watched as he walked by with his shoulders slumped over and his stride too slow. As if burdened by some great weight and it was all he could do to carry it across the floor. My heart went out to him. I was rather worried. and a little afraid. I mean,…
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6 Ways to Build Up Our Husbands
Today we’re onto chapter six in our book club for The Virtuous Life of a Christ-Centered Wife: 18 Powerful Lessons for Personal Growth. Today’s chapter is on the virtue of encouragement. More information on the book club is found underneath the post. (View table of contents here.) _________________________________ Our first house was definitely considered a starter home. It was a humble abode with two little bedrooms, a tiny kitchen, a small yard, and a teensy-weensy back porch. It wasn’t grand, but there was no place like home. With a few dollars behind us we put up a wooden fence in the yard. The leftover pickets were used to cover the floor in…
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3 Ways to Speak Life to Our Husbands
image source: lightstock.com “Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.” 1 Thessalonians 5:11 Ladies, we like to talk, right? I mean, it’s said that women speak 3 times more than men. This has turned out to be a myth, but the point is it appears that women talk all the time, whereas men tend to be more reserved. Or so the myth says. I had a great grandfather who barely spoke. He would sit at the dinner table and simply stare at the thing he wanted until someone noticed and gave it to him. My great grandmother was so intune to…
