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I almost forgot about the Completing Him Challenge this week! As I said earlier, it's been a busy weekend, and I didn't even turn on my computer till late in the day. This week's challenge is to pray daily for our husbands:   Challenge: Print this list out and pray through this list daily. Also, do not forget to ask your husband each morning for any specific prayer requests he has for the day. I do this regularly and my husband always answers with a detailed situation he is concerned about. It's a blessing to pray for him and watch God work and answer. Our intimacy has grown through this and he always knows he has a prayer warrior in me. If you don't pray daily for him - who will? Courtney recommends and quotes from The Power of a Praying® Wife by Stormie O'Martian. I have this book, but I haven't read it in quite a while. I think I'll get it out and pray through the 30 Days of Praying for Your Husband once again. I'll begin that this week!...

Have you ever picked up a new interest and in your zeal for your new hobby spent hours of time learning about it? I remember learning to play the piano. We didn't have a piano when I started taking lessons, but my teacher told my parents I would find a way to learn if I were truly interested in it. And I did! I began lessons in September, determined to learn, and my parents bought me a restored player piano with the player mechanism removed for Christmas that year. I've continued to play to this day, and the piano is still a passion of mine. During my devotions one morning I was reading in Proverbs chapter 18. Verse 1 has always intrigued me, but I never could quite grasp its meaning. As I was reading, I looked up and saw a commentary on Proverbs belonging to my husband, so I grabbed it and looked up that verse to see what the author, Charles Bridges, had to say about it. Here's the verse: Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and ...

This week's assignment in the Completing Him Challenge at Women Living Well is to remember our wedding vows and tell the story of our wedding: This weeks challenge is simply to Remember. Remember the day you entered your sacred vows. If you are a blogger, please post pictures from that day and share your story. Then link up below and link your post to this post. We had a fall wedding - October 12, 1984. We had originally planned on a December wedding, but Wes's parents were preparing to leave for Jamaica as missionaries, and their documents came in allowing them to leave at the end of October, meaning they wouldn't be able to leave Jamaica again in December for the wedding. So we asked my dad, with fear and trembling, if we could move the wedding up to October! Once he knew the reason and that it was a valid one, he was fine with it.   My dad about to give me away! Our wedding turned out to be a comedy of errors. When people ask if anything went wrong with it, ...

 I'm participating in The Week in Words , hosted by Barbara of Stray Thoughts : Welcome to The Week In Words, where we share quotes from the last week’s reading. If something you read this past week  inspired you, caused you to laugh, cry, think, dream, or just resonated with you in some way, please share it with us, attributing it to its source, which can be a book, newspaper, blog, Facebook — anything that you read . From a friend's Facebook page: Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position. ~~ Gilbert K. Chesterton I'm still reading A Woman After God's Own Heart by Elizabeth George. The chapters I read this week focused on parenting. The best thing I read last week concerning training our children in godliness was this excerpt: Another way we ...

It's Week 1 of the Completing Him Challenge running this summer at Women Living Well! I'm excited about participating, and I hope you'll join in too, if not publicly, at least by reading the challenge each Monday and doing them on your own. This weeks challenge: I wonder, are you still captivating or has pleasing, pursuing, touching, loving, listening and feeding you relationship been lost somewhere in the busy shuffle of life? It's Week #1 of the Completing Him Challenge . If you are a blogger - share your dating pictures and story (save the wedding ones for next week!). Consider: How much time do you spend on a daily/weekly basis cultivating your marriage now? In what ways can you regain some of what has been lost in the daily shuffle of life?  Our dating story began in April of our sophomore year in high school. My dad, mother, and I had just moved back to our hometown after a 3-year period in another state where my dad had pastored. One of my best ...

      Each Monday, Barbara hosts The Week in Words on her blog, Stray Thoughts : Welcome to The Week In Words, where we share quotes from the last week’s reading. If something you read this past week  inspired you, caused you to laugh, cry, think, dream, or just resonated with you in some way, please share it with us, attributing it to its source, which can be a book, newspaper, blog, Facebook — anything that you read . More information is here . Seen while perusing the new-to-me blog of a sister in Christ: 'A woman's heart should be so hidden in Christ that a man should have to seek Him first to find her.' ~~ Unknown I realize that my husband "found" me years ago, but I still want to be a woman whose heart is hidden in Christ! I want our lives to be so intertwined with Christ that we can't help but be drawn closer to God by our relationship with each other. I want our boys to find girls like that, and I want our daughter to be that kind of woman....

One of the goals for my blog has been to encourage women to be biblical wives. Notice I didn't say perfect wives, otherwise I would be disqualified from my own blog! I've been reading Courtney's blog, Women Living Well , for several months, and I like what I see. She's a young woman who is bold in her stand for biblical marriage and is doing a fantastic job teaching women to be the wives their husbands need ( incidentally, I'd love to see some older women doing this - it's biblical ! ). I saw last week that Courtney was going to start a summer challenge, but I didn't get to look at it closely until we got home from our weekend getaway. Once again, I like what I see, so I'm joining in her summer Completing Him Challenge . I would love to see other wives join in (she has 104 listed already!). It runs from this past Monday, June 7th, through August 9th. Each Monday, Courtney will post a challenge for us that will help us meet our own husband's needs; y...

I'm very late with The Week in Words today. Wes and I returned from our little getaway weekend last night about 9:00, after having a totally relaxing time together. We shopped, went sightseeing, and went out to eat both Friday and Saturday, then enjoyed visiting another church on Sunday morning and getting to sit down and enjoy the service without having to do a thing! If you're in ministry, you know I'm not complaining, but simply stating the fact that sometimes it's nice not to have to do the work of putting together a church service. We took a few pictures, and I'll share bits and pieces of our trip with you later in the week. Now for my quotes this week . . .  I can't for the life of me remember where I saw this ( reminding myself to write down the source when I keep quotes! ), but it was online somewhere. I liked it because it's so practical. "He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan carries a th...