Journey of Worship

We signed for a new house yesterday.  It's beautiful, gives us the space for our family of 6, and is everything we want.  Except a pool.  There is a pond next door, and possibly a dry creek behind us.  Upon talking to a friend she recounted a story of a friend who's granddaughter drowned at 3.  We do have 2 littles, at 4 and 1, and I'm believing this is God's protection.  It's also a provision, we really couldn't afford the upkeep of a pool in these next 2 years of paying off our trade school and increasing our income.  I'd go further to say, the kids will be encouraged to explore and make friends with neighbors without all the entertainment at their back door- though a dip to cool off after some good work would have been appreciated.  We'll figure something out.  Provisions: God will provide.   This house-hunting and income transition has been a great time for me: my husband and I have discussed a lot of things and so our communica...

 When I said "yes" to marrying my now husband, I entered into an engagement that said I would, with every intention, seek to be one with him.  The engagement period is a practice of that union.  We began to make plans for our union: where we would live, what his job would be and what my role would be, how many children we might have, what we felt like God was calling us to individually and what it would  look like for us to support each other.  I would look to him for direction, no longer looking to my own father, but submitting myself to God and to my future husband.  If much conflict ensued, it would then be appropriate to break off the engagement.  After that it is in complete submission to God that I completely submit to my husband.  If there is a question of direction, I ask for clarity from my husband and a peace and motivation from God to honor my husband's choice and continue to live in my lane.  What He has called me to I must contin...

 So what does this submission, "obedience" look like? If it's not initiated by trust, though I would hope a good foundation of trust was built in the dating phase of your relationship, what is it initiated by?  "as unto the Lord." because we have a grounding in our trust that when we choose God, and God's ways, we are secure.   Ephesians 5:22-24 "wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.  For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church, and he is the savior of the body.  Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing." 1 Corinthians 11:3 "But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God." "The basis of a man's headship is rooted in the very essence of the woman's created nature.  Just as God is the head of Christ and Christ is t...

 We're entering into exciting adventure mode.  I get nervous and sometimes irritable, but mostly focused and my brain starts racing to all the readiness, preparedness that needs to happen.  In the last 7 years this has usually been a new child entering our home and considering all the adjustments.  This time it is moving our family to a new home.  Our family is signing on our number 6 in less than a week!  So much excitement.  But most of all, it's that I get to do all of this with my wonderful husband, this is what we felt called to do, and now we have arrived, and yet there's life ahead.  What a journey, and in these last months how much Debi, through God's word has caught me up.  If you haven't read and studied with her book, "Helpmeet", I can't recommend it enough.  I hope that my book, devotions, would change lives as well, that God can reach more through it. As I near the end of her book, I feel my book coming.  Lord, launch i...

 What's your vice?  Is it wine, ice cream, or chocolate?  Maybe a little combination of that and shopping, binge-watching someone else's made-up life, or "escaping" to meet up with some other clucky hens, or maybe it's just finding solitude.  If you're finding yourself pulled to these things, you might want to deeply consider where the conflict of submission is.  What are you resisting in God's order?  Maybe you think you're doing it all right.... take some of that time you're running away and make it time to ask God and dig in the Word.  Proverbs is rich with instruction.  Paul includes in many of his letters God's order for marriage.  God is so good, he doesn't want us to be clueless, susceptible to our flesh and the lies of Satan and order of this world.   Why is it so import to learn to "submit to our husbands as unto the Lord"?  Because that is truly the key to the blessed life.  We submit first to the Lord, and even ...

 There is a temptation to be ignorant.  With knowledge comes power and responsibility.  With ignorance: bliss, the earthly kind that looks like spend without thinking of the future, do it because it feels good now, neglect what is difficult and enjoy your life today....  But God tells us this is not truly the way, and there is much more joy in His way!  Check this out, though knowledge can make one puffed up, prideful, and hypocritical, with the wisdom of the Lord, we know how to apply it for kingdom gain.  Anything we do for kingdom comes with multiplication reward. I can get stuck in so many proverbs and verses on wisdom, and how God takes our faithful actions and mutliplies them, and these are great studies to pursue, but how do we apply it to our mothering and wifing? Porverbs 29:15  The rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.   Proverbs 29:17 Discipline your son and he will give you peace/ he w...

 A good woman is genuine, Joyful, virtuous, valuable, competent, ready, kind, benevolent, merciful, hardworking, agreeable, pleasant, congenial, honorable, faithful, gracious, and wise.   Titus 3:14 "And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful." A person is what she does.  So often we want only a portion of our life on stage.  God sees it all, and usually, quite frankly, so do our kids.  It doesn't matter what others think of us, ultimately, it's what God thinks, our husbands experience, and our kids learn from us that matters.   Lord, I want to be fruitful, guide me today to put my hand to the things that will bring great harvest.   "A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones." Prov 12:4 A good woman is a crown to her husband.  She can make a mediocre man be as honored as one wearing a crown.     -She is wise and does ...