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Linda Dillow
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June 3 - September 29, 2022
A perfect combination: a lover and best friend, all wrapped up in one package called a husband.
Insight 1: What Do My Choices Say?
Insight 2: Marriage Matters
Insight 3: The Treadmill Won’t Stop!
Insight 4: Live With the End in View
Teach us to number our days and recognize how few they are; help us to spend them as we should. (Ps. 90:12 TLB).
Live life then, with a due sense of responsibility, not as [women] who do not know the meaning and purpose of life but as those who do. Make the best use of your time, despite all the evils of these days. Don’t be vague but firmly grasp what you know to be the will of the Lord. (Eph. 5:15–16 PH)
What would you like your husband to say about you after many years of marriage?
What character qualities would you like him to have seen in you?
What kind of love relationship would you want ...
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Echoes The gap so wide, the canyon so deep I can barely see the other side From the wife I am to who I desire to be What bridges this great divide? The sound of His voice on that distant day Makes me stop and rethink my steps Will he be a better man for the choices I’ve made? Will he rejoice in the vows I’ve kept? How can he see you in the home we make Living from day to day As this wife looks ahead to the end of our time What would I want my husband to say? “She was patient and kind Mindful of our time She was faithful, trustworthy and honest She forgave and sought my heart Was attentive to
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“What is the one thing you would most like to have in a wife?” Surprisingly, the majority answered, “A positive attitude about life.”
Proverbs 23:7
When you stand before your heavenly Father, He will not ask you about Jack’s weaknesses, but He will ask you about your attitude of acceptance.
They were idolaters, they tested God, and they grumbled (1 Cor. 10:1–13).
(1 Cor. 10:10–11 NIV).
(Phil. 2:14–15
I cry out to the LORD; I plead for the LORD’s mercy. I pour out my complaints before him and tell him all my troubles. When I am overwhelmed, you alone know the way I should turn. (vv. 1–3 NLT)
Griping I look for someone to come and help me, but no one gives me a passing thought! No one will help me; no one cares a bit what happens to me. (Ps. 142:4 NLT) Gratitude Then I pray to you, O LORD. I say, “You are my place of refuge. You are all I really want in life.” (Ps. 142:5 NLT)
What a perfect thing to do; give thanks to God every morning for His lovingkindness and every night for His faithfulness.
Next, I made a list of these words: • True • Worthy of respect • Right • Pure • Lovely • Excellent • Worthy of praise Each day of the week, I thought about one of the above attributes and asked God to reveal how Jody displayed that quality, and then I wrote it all in my Thankful Journal. For example: Sunday—True Jody is committed to truth, and he lives what is true. This man doesn’t lie. I can trust him. Monday—Worthy of Respect Jody has saved for our retirement, even when, in our thirties, I argued with him about it and said, “We don’t have the money for this.” He has started a college fund
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“What’s the attraction?” Paulie asked. “I don’t know—she fills gaps.” “What’s ‘gaps’?” “I don’t know, she’s got gaps, I got gaps, together we fill gaps.”
For the wife, her greatest need is for security. For the husband, his greatest need is for significance.
Revere Esteem Submit Prize Enjoy Comfort Trust
1. Bitterness. Nursing your wrath to keep it warm—brooding over insults, injuries, and slights that you’ve received. Aristotle spoke of bitterness as “the resentful spirit which refuses reconciliation.” 2. Wrath. The flaring up of passion and temper, an outbreak of anger that springs from personal animosity. 3. Anger. A long-lived habitual anger, where it settles down and is at home in your heart. 4. Clamor. The loud self-assertion of an angry wife who wants everyone to hear her grievances. 5. Evil speaking. Slanderous or abusive speaking about one’s husband. 6. Malice. Bad feelings of every
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Forgiveness is releasing someone from your judgment.
First Peter 2:23 began to glow inside of me like an ember. It says, “When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly”
“In the Green Berets we train over and over, and then over and over again. We repeat some exercises until we are sick of them, but our instructors know what they are doing. They want us so prepared and finely trained that when trials and difficulties come on the battlefield, we will be able to fall back upon that which is second nature to us. We literally learn to do things by reflex action.”
Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work as a wife with excellence. Author Unknown
The Lord was her love and I was her lover.
