An Unexpected Blessing

October 23, 2024October 22, 2024 RefreshHer2 Comments

Adorned Study #11 – You can listen to this post here on Refresh Her podcast.

We had just left a social gathering and were driving home when my husband said to me, “So many women will not let their husband lead.” He didn’t mention what/who he was referencing, but just the observation he had made while we were at this gathering of people.

I let my mind think back to our recent gathering and
I heard a wife answering for her husband.
I heard another one talking over top of her man.
Was it that the men didn’t know what to say, or was it that he wasn’t given the chance to say it? I’m pretty sure the latter is the answer.

I know how easy it is to do both of those things! I fight these things in my own marriage if I don’t use the brakes of self control! What is required in these situations is a word that causes most women great distress. The word is submission. The definition of this word that I love is, To lean your husband’s direction. But what does God’s Word say about this word?

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Need a Little Help Loving Your Man?

October 16, 2024October 16, 2024 RefreshHerLeave a comment

This post is a continuation of the Adorned Study #11. You can listen to this post here on the Refresh Her podcast.

A long-distance friend on Facebook is engaged. She wrote on her fiancé’s wall this week,

“You are so easy to love!”

Anyone who has been married for a month or two, knows that husbands AND wives don’t STAY easy to love; both need grace at times in order to love the other as we should!

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Marriage

The Cost of Neglect In Marriage

June 28, 2024June 28, 2024 RefreshHer3 Comments

Weeds! It’s amazing what just a little time away will do to a summer yard!

Proverbs 10:4 reminds us ~

He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand:
but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

I remember a time when my hand had been idle, while on away on vacation, but when the temperatures had cooled off some and the humidity was in breathing range, I donned my garden gloves and headed out to give this poor Dianthus some badly needed attention. My hand was diligent to take care of the neglected landscape.

While I was tugging and pulling at the stubborn intruders, the Lord brought to my mind a simple truth: neglect in any area of our lives spells t-r-o-u-b-l-e! You name it – if you neglect your health, your work, or your spiritual walk, it’s an invitation to disaster.

Let’s think about another area in which neglect is deadly…a marriage. It’s so easy to “take a little vacation” from really connecting with our spouse.

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Marriage · Speech

Entice Your Husband with Fair Speech

March 6, 2024February 27, 2024 RefreshHer2 Comments

You can this listen to this post – which is last week’s episode on Refresh Her podcast.

When I was in elementary school, I had a fascination with matches and fire. That led me to doing a very foolish act one day. I struck the match that I had been forbidden to touch and lit one strand of a pom pom that I had in my bedroom, thinking it would slowly burn up that strand of crepe paper!

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communication · Marriage

The Bold, Religious Looks of a Woman

February 28, 2024February 28, 2024 RefreshHer2 Comments

You can listen to this post (last week’s podcast) here.

They say that we spend 1/5 of our life talking! How many of those words are spoken carelessly or in haste? How many are sincere and uplifting to our mate? Since our speech fills many hours of our life, God gives us wise instruction about what to say and how to say it. Surprisingly, we can act like the “strange woman” in Proverbs 7 by these three actions that follow.

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