I read this article on another homesteading blog here. Carrie's Country Cottage. It really touched me and I felt like it needed to be repeated!! Thank you Carrie!!!!!! It touched my heart and I hope it touches others.

Carrie said,

"I am reading through "A Woman After God's Own Heart" by Elizabeth George again.  I seem to go through it about every 3-5 years.  Each time I find something to challenge my walk with the Lord.  This time I am feeling a need to renew my committment to my husband.  I would like to use this time to share with you what I have received from just a couple of chapters out of the book.  (I would like to highly recommend that you read the entire book for yourself.)

We should make our husband our #1 human relationship and let him know it!

We should choose our husband over other people, places, and events.

We should ask ourselves:  "Am I spoiling my husband rotten?" (for we should spoil!)

The way in which we do that is:

1.)  PRAY for your husband daily.  James 5:16 states:  "the effective, fervent prayers of a righteous (wo)man avail much."; it is impossible to hate anyone whom you are praying for.

2.)   PLAN for your husband daily:  special deeds of kindness, special dinners (at home), special times alone (dates), early bedtimes for children, same bedtimes for you and hubby.

3.)   PREPARE for you husband daily:  tidy the house before he comes home, tidy your apperance (and the children's), clear out visitors 1/2 hour before he is scheduled to arrive, stay off the phone, greet him with kind and loving words, set the table (even if dinner is not ready it is easy to see that it soon will be!), treat him like a King arriving back to his castle!

4.)   PLEASE your husband.  Pay careful attention to his wants, likes and dislikes.

5.)  PROTECT time with your husband.  If my husband is at home, I should be at home.

6.)  PHYSICALLY love your husband.  Proverbs 5:19 says that our husband should be drunk with our sexual love.  (Quite a word picture!)

7.)  POSITIVELY respond to your husband.  An immediate, gracious answer creates a non-threatening atmosphere for asking questions.  (ie.: "Sure Honey!" . . . . . "How do you think we should approach that / pay for that / find time for that / etc. . . . . . (and then another positive responce to show you are willing to follow his lead.) "Sounds good!"

8.)   PRAISE your husband frequently.  Avoid speaking critically/negatively about him to anyone.  Avoid passing up an opportunity to bless him in public (and certainly to his face as well). 

9.)  PRAY for your husband daily.  Take every opportunity throughout the day to ask God to enable me to be the wife He wants me to be. "

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