True Love Stories Never Have Endings

I have been working on a part two for my makings of a Christian wife series, but God put it on my heart for the post today. I used to not like listening to sermons. Don't get me wrong, I love going to church and I love our pastor. But I never used to like sitting and listening to a sermon from someone else. I viewed it like I view audio books...I didn't want to listen; I am a reader.  But then I discovered Right Now Media thanks to my church. It is the Netflix for bible studies and I have completely fallen in love with it. Right now I am doing a study on changing the mind. It deals with issues like worry, anxiety, fear, and how trusting God and changing your mind can battle these issues. I have been struggling with anxiety and fear and today I finally realized why. I have not been happy with some circumstances that K and I have been experiencing. I haven't been satisfied with some outcomes and I have not been trusting God to change my way of thinking. I have been a...

It starts out as something small: The garbage not being taken out,  the mail piling up on the corner of the counter,  or not filling the sponge wand with dish detergent after he uses it.  I try my hardest not to nag him...so I let these things "slide".  What I really do is let them fester inside and they come to a boiling point... And this is what happened over the weekend: The pot boiled over. I was dealing with stress from several different areas of life in general and lately we seemed to be nit-picking each other. ALOT. I was getting aggravated with him over such little things. And the pot completely over boiled because I didn't let him know what was bothering me from the beginning. After a long talk and a melt-down on my part, I wanted to do something different than focusing on the things that he did that bothered me. We were better than that. We were letting the stress of life get to us and I didn't like it one bit. I started a new video bible st...

I can be very moody. Seriously, just ask K. All he has to do is say one thing, and I snap at him. Then I see the look on his face after I snap and I feel horrible. Because it was so unnecessary. He didn't deserve my moody response. Just because the universe isn't turning like I think it should, I shouldn't take it out on him. But, I do anyway. And what does he do? He forgives me. Every time . He still loves me despite the moods and testy attitudes. All of this came to light while I studied Song of Solomon this morning. With such pretty words, you wouldn't think that this book would tackle conflict, but it does. In Chapter 5, Solomon returns home to be with his beloved bride. "Open to me, my treasure, my darling, my dove, my perfect one. My head is drenched with dew,  my hair with dampness of the night." (Song of Solomon, 5:2) In this chapter, some time has passed since their wedding and their marriage has lost some of that spark that was original...

I didn't realize how hard this post would be for me. I have been sitting here trying to get it together for about a week now. It's a topic that is very important to me and our marriage. After I read and studied my chapter in Song of Solomon, I felt God was telling me I was ready to talk about it. But, it was finding the words to do it.  It is something that is completely lost to our society and hard for us to follow as wives. Submission. The definition of submission from Merriam-Webster: 2) the condition of being submissive, humble, compliant  3) an act of submitting to the authority or control of another We are taught in today's day and age that submission is a bad word. It is a belief that is long lost and forgotten. But submission is a teaching from the bible; a teaching from God. As wives we are to submit to our husbands as we would to the Lord.   The Bible's definition of submission:  When I say submission, there are many ways I submit to K. ...

Have you ever read the book the Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman? I plan to reread it and post a review on here...I love this book. It not only taught me about myself, but it taught me a lot about how a man thinks and what they want from their wife in terms of love. My love language is words of affirmation, which means I love above everything else words of encouragement, compliments, a simple thank you. I love when K tells me that I smell nice or he likes how I look. I struggle with my image and compliments lift my spirits and I want to know that he appreciates what he sees. I like looking nice for him. Sometimes he struggles with the compliments and I have to remind him how important it is to me, but he never fails to thank me for something I have done for him. Even if it is something small like fixing his lunch in the morning. That will set my day just right.  The reason I wanted to talk about this today is because this morning I spent sometime with God and s...

Before I get into the topic of this post...I know I better post a disclaimer. This post will contain adult content. I was apprehensive about writing about this...but I can't have a marriage blog without talking about it. And I just want to warn you that if you don't want to read words that have to do with intimacy...you may want to stop reading this post. I will be talking about sex. I don't want to offend anyone...my goal is always to help. But I may say some things you don't agree with...and that's ok if you disagree. I hope you continue reading :) I want to start this by saying that sex (let's call it...making love. That sounds so much better.) confuses me. I will also say I am not going to post details about K and I...some things I have to keep private for us. But I will say it confuses me. I follow  Sheila Wray Gregoire , who is a brilliant Christian blogger, not afraid to talk about making love. She travels all over speaking and helping women with...

I am sad to say that I haven't studied a lot out of the Old Testament of the bible. So when I was doing my list of couples, I came across many couples in the Old Testament. I didn't know anything about Ruth and Boaz. The book of Ruth is a short one, but very interesting story. And that is where we will be for our couple's bible study today. There are so many lessons that we can learn from this couple. There isn't much that is said about their marriage; it is their journey and who they are that is so important. But first, let's learn about who they are. Ruth is Naomi's daughter-in-law. Ruth was married to Mahlon, but he died within 10 years of marriage. Naomi gave Ruth and her other daughter-in-law permission to leave and be remarried, but Ruth refused. She felt she should stay with Naomi. It was dark times for Israel with famine and Ruth and Naomi were loyal to each other and God. I read in the commentary that Ruth was a Moabitess, but I am not sure what their...

Good morning everyone! Sorry for the little absence...life has been busy. A little insight into our life...as I have mentioned I work at a program for young children and was working with 2 year olds. I have very recently changed to 3 year olds. I miss my old class, but I love the 3 year old age. They are very energetic, but so eager to learn. K is also facing change at work and in our off time we have been getting ready for new bedroom furniture, which I am very excited about. Last Monday I spent time studying a new couple after K and I did a bible study in Luke. Luke is a gospel I have never studied before. It's very interesting because he was a doctor and is the only writer to record John the Baptist's birth. Which brings me to our couple for today: Zacharias and Elizabeth, parents of John the Baptist. I studied Luke 1:1-25. Zacharias was a Jewish priest and his wife Elizabeth was from a family of a priestly line. After doing a little research, I learned because Zacharias...

Good morning, readers! Last night I read an article on Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting. If you are not familiar with her, she is famous for her role in The Big Bang Theory and 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Daughter. She recently got married and I was surprised to learn that she believes in the traditional role of marriage. It was refreshing to read her interview as she said she wanted to show him respect by adding to her name and taking his, she cooks for him 5 nights a week and wants to take care of him. When she was asked about why did she think her marriage would last while so many other Hollywood marriages fail, she answered that too many throw in the towel and give up. They work at their marriage everyday. I was really impressed to read her interview...I don't watch the Big Bang Theory although I have heard it's really funny. I had to share with you. Now to talk about my study from last week continuing on Adam and Eve. I will be in Genesis Chapter 3: 1-24. In this Chapter, Eve's...

I am very excited to share a bible study I have developed and will be doing for the next several Mondays with you. I am going to study iconic and lesser known couples of the bible, what they went through, how God was involved in their lives, their faith (or in many occasions lack there of), their culture, and what God was trying to accomplish with this couple. For our first couple, I battled with studying Adam and Eve because they are so well known. But then after talking to my grandma (my bible guru), I thought, they were the FIRST couple. The first married couple that God ever created...how much more important could you get than that?  I am going to break this particular couple into two parts...one focusing on the perfect marriage and the second part focusing on disobeying God. If you would like to follow in your bible, I will be studying Genesis Chapter 2:1-25. In Genesis Chapter 2, after God created the Earth, he noticed it needed to be taken care of. So he created man-Adam...