Helping Your Husband Through Trials

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By Contributing Writer, Jennifer Ross It was our anniversary, and I was about to receive the only thing I really wanted. Six days prior, our daughter had been air lifted to Children’s Hospital three hours away from our home.  Her runny nose had quickly turned into pneumonia, and she was suddenly very ill.  The stress of a [...]

To Correct or Not to Correct…Your Husband: A Pendulum Post

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Written by Natalie, Editress of Visionary Womanhood This is a blog post, and by nature, blog posts are supposed to make a point and make it succinctly.  Therefore, in order for me to make my point and let you go, I‘ll assume some things.  I’m assuming that the typical reader of Visionary Womanhood is a [...]

Gems in the Web: Blessing Husbands 11/30/12

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We’re going to wrap up our month of blessing husbands with a few excellent gems you don’t want to miss! We often read and talk about what submission IS.  Find out What a Wife’s Submission is NOT. Aileen Challies, the wife of Tim Challies, did a three part blog post series a few years ago [...]

Gratitude Will Change Your Husband

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By Contributing Writer, Kelly Crawford Most men are not really complicated–we are. But I know I take my husband’s uncomplicated nature for granted. And too often, I default to trying to improve him in one area or another, instead of seeing and building his enormous strengths in so many other places. (Why do we major [...]

Building Cohesion in Marriage

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By Contributing Writer, Kim Doebler A few weeks ago I was helping my daughter with science. While quizzing her on the vocabulary words, we came to the word cohesion. Cohesion is: “the phenomena that occurs when individual molecules are so attracted to each other that they tend to stay together, even when exposed to tension.” [...]

Are You Kind To Your Husband?

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 By Contributing Writer, Marci Ferrell But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; [...]

Blessing our Husbands by Cultivating Contentment

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By Contributing Writer, Yvonne Harink Discontent is a sin that is its own punishment and makes men torment themselves; it makes the spirit sad, the body sick, and all the enjoyments sour; it is the heaviness of the heart and the rottenness of the bones. It is a sin that is its own parent. It [...]

Are You a Nag? Take the Quiz!

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By Contributing Writer, Bambi Moore One of the first pieces of marital advice I received was, “Don’t be a nag!” Okaaaaay. I had no idea what a nag was.  Until I became one.  Is there hope for a nag {like me}? I asked google what the definition of nag was, and I got this: Verb: [...]

Communication Ditches

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By Contributing Writer, Jeannette Paulson Not so long ago, I landed in a ditch — a communication ditch. The children wanted to be excused from an activity.  I can’t remember what it was.   But wanting to please, I gave permission. Later I had second thoughts and talked with my husband about why the request [...]

Leaky Plumbing and A Humbled Wife

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By Contributing Writer, Terry Covey Let’s Start With The Negatives We’re all used to getting advice that offers us a quick answer–the “positives” to work towards.  We grasp at them like there’s no tomorrow!  “Just tell me what to do and I’ll finally be….”  Yet perhaps it is best to begin at the very beginning – [...]