Hello Wonderful Ladies,
I hope you don't mind me posting this here. I think it's the right place. I just wanted you all to know how much I have enjoyed being part of this group as a whole, and this Bible Study forum.
I've read some of your posts where you sound way too hard on yourselves and I wanted you to know where I was a year ago. Our house was a complete disaster, we hardly went to Church, and my husband and I were continually grouching with each other over goofy little things. That's when I started asking God to take control and lead the way, and I would follow. He filled me with a desire to go to Church and take the family with me. My husband was very willing, so I think God had spoken to him too. Then we started working on getting the house under control. It's amazing how much less stress we felt after we had a clean family room, then added a clean kitchen table to sit down to as a family, then a clean kitchen, and tidy bedrooms, etc.
Once that happened I did my best to keep it clean. We both worked full-time, so it wasn't easy. It's been such a blessing to stay home! And let me really, really assure you that once your bathrooms, kitchen, bedrooms, etc., are clean that if you wipe it down the next week it'll take half the time (since it won't have all the soap and dust buildup, etc.) and the week after that will be even less.
Of course the basement is still a mess but I'm making progress! :D And the house definitely isn't perfect, but at least nowadays the grocery store bathroom isn't more appealing than my own! :D
I hope you all have a fantastic weekend. I'm looking forward to the next lesson on Monday. :D
Thank you for this post, about a year ago my husband was deployed and prior to the deployment we had had all sorts of issuses and problems. During the deployment I let Satan get a hold of me in awas all in my ear reminding me of how everything had been and with JD gone it made it easy for me to forget that love we once had. So I was an idiot and dicided that divorce was the answer to all our problems. When he came home the first couple of months were really bad between us but God wouldnt let me file for divorce, I couldnt bring myself to it no matter how much I fet I didnt love him and so I praying everytime I thought about it for God to change my heart toward him and bring us through all of this, and after weeks and a couple months God was faithful and began repairing our marriage and helping us to love one another again the way we had and of course today here we are expecting our third child and we arent perfect but we are getting there. God is always faithful! Its because of God's grace I am who I am and where I am in life!
I hear both of you! I used to get really aggravated all the time about dumb things, then when we went back to Church and they did the prayers of the Church and got to the "please add your own requests . . . " part I would really, REALLY pray for God to make me a better mother, better wife, please teach me how to have more patience, please let me be the mother and the wife my little family deserves. And I prayed at home for the same things too. Then I felt my heart soften and learned to not sweat the small stuff, and practiced patience and then actually FELT patience too which was a big thing for me! :D
And seriously, my house was so cluttered it was overwhelming and hard to find a place to start. So just had to start shoveling out the family room - LOL, and found the couch which was wonderful, then slowly found the rest. Well, except that basement but it's coming along.
I really enjoy reading both of your posts, and so proud of both of you. It's so wonderful you made such a come around Lorie. Marriage is such a huge amount of work, much more than I ever imagined, and there are such low spots we have to work through sometimes.
God Bless! Take care - I'm glad to have you as friends. It's comforting to know we're not alone in our trials and in our joys. :)
Quoting FiveofHearts:I hear both of you! I used to get really aggravated all the time about dumb things, then when we went back to Church and they did the prayers of the Church and got to the "please add your own requests . . . " part I would really, REALLY pray for God to make me a better mother, better wife, please teach me how to have more patience, please let me be the mother and the wife my little family deserves. And I prayed at home for the same things too. Then I felt my heart soften and learned to not sweat the small stuff, and practiced patience and then actually FELT patience too which was a big thing for me! :D
And seriously, my house was so cluttered it was overwhelming and hard to find a place to start. So just had to start shoveling out the family room - LOL, and found the couch which was wonderful, then slowly found the rest. Well, except that basement but it's coming along.
I really enjoy reading both of your posts, and so proud of both of you. It's so wonderful you made such a come around Lorie. Marriage is such a huge amount of work, much more than I ever imagined, and there are such low spots we have to work through sometimes.
God Bless! Take care - I'm glad to have you as friends. It's comforting to know we're not alone in our trials and in our joys. :)
- FiveofHearts
on Apr. 17, 2009 at 6:46 PM