What’s My Resolution This Year????

Greg and April – November 2013

I have been enjoying my email vacation and using this time to take stock of things, talk with Greg, pray and evaluate the direction of my life, my walk with Christ, my marriage, my mothering, my blogs and email ministry – and I have been enjoying Greg and my children!

THIS BLOG HAS GROWN LIKE CRAZY SINCE I BEGAN JANUARY 17, 2012!?!?!?!  I HAVE TO PRAISE GOD FOR WHAT HE HAS DONE HERE!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE blogging and ministering to wives (and to my single ladies, too)!  This is my calling and passion.  I never get tired of this stuff. I could seriously do it all day every day.  Greg is very supportive of my ministry and it brings me such joy to share what God has shown me.  I LOVE seeing what God is doing in others’ lives and watching Him do miracles.  This has been the most amazing adventure of my life.

• I want to be the best possible steward for God with my time, resources and efforts.
• I want to be sensitive to my husband and to my Lord and be obedient to what Christ would have me do.
• I hold this blog and everything in my life, except for Christ, loosely in my hands – seeking His will far above my own.  I want only to be fully available to Him, completely obedient to Him and to bring the greatest possible glory to Him!

My resolution this year is to find a better BALANCE for my family and ministry – AND to seek to bring the most glory possible to God in every area of my life.

For those of you who have been following me very long – you know that moderation and balance are some of my greatest challenges!  I am great at 110% on or 100% off.  Balance and moderation – UGH!  I don’t do these things well at all sometimes!

I am the first to admit, I am not perfect.  Anything good in me is completely due to Christ.

Greg would like me to spend about 2 hours/day on blogging and emails.  I want to honor him in this.  So, I am going to be implementing a few changes.  

• Please pray for Greg and for me to have wisdom about how best to minister and best use the resources, time and opportunities that God has given to us to reach the precious people God has brought into our lives.  Each one is important to me, and even more important to Christ! 🙂

PLANS:

• I am going to be using some more posts from the archives.
• I may cut back a bit on frequency of my posts at times – especially when my children and husband are home on vacation.
• I would like to use guest posts – as I have been doing.  If you have a story that you believe God would like you to share about what He is doing in your marriage, please send it to me!  I may be able to use it. 🙂   Please be sure to tell me if you want it to be anonymous or if you want me to use your name.
• I would like to share Christian husbands’ perspectives on many of these issues, too.  If you are a husband (or you are a wife and you think your husband would be interested, you may certainly ask him!) and you would like to write an anonymous post for me about godly femininity, how a wife’s disrespect impacts a husband, how a wife’s controlling behavior affects a husband, what it does for a husband when his wife has faith in him, the power of a wife’s respect or about how much it means to you when your wife follows your leadership, or about any of the issues we talk about, I’d love to read what you have to say – and I may be able to use it as a post.
• I LOVE to share other wives’ (and husband’s) stories.  This thing isn’t about me and what I do – it is all about God.  The more examples the better!
• I would like to encourage people to comment on posts or on my Peacefulwife Blog Facebook page if possible rather than emailing me.
• I would like to encourage wives who are a bit farther along on this journey to join with me to mentor the wives who are beginning this journey.
• Emails – this has been the most time consuming thing for me in the past few months. I LOVE emailing with people.  It is such a joy for me!  But I have been spending 3-4+ hours many days on emails.  Often, I get 100-150 emails/day.  So, this is an area where I am going to need to make some changes.  Thank you for your patience as I prayerfully consider how best to approach this issue.  I may need to see if some other wives who have been on this journey for awhile might want to join me to mentor some wives by email.  Maybe I can match up some wives with mentoring partners and facilitate discussions when needed.  I want very much to be available to those wives who are in need!
• Prayer team – I would like to add more ladies to my prayer team.  I need prayer!  My marriage needs prayer.  This ministry needs prayer.  This HAS to all be about God, not about me.  If you are interested in receiving emails from me about once a week with prayer needs, please let me know in the comments, or send me an email that you would like to be on the prayer team.
• Prayer day – I would like to have a prayer day, maybe once a week for us to all pray together.
• Book – I am working on a book.  I need much prayer about this!  If it is not of God, I don’t want to write it.  If it is of Him, I want to be faithful and obedient to His desires for me. I am still uncertain about some of the direction with this.  My greatest challenge is trying to figure out what NOT to include!  There is SO MUCH I want to say!  So I need God’s clear leadership, provision, direction, inspiration and His power to speak through me if this is of Him.

I would love to have godly resources to link to for wives who are truly abused. Praying about this, also.
SHARING:

What spiritual and marriage related resolutions do you have for 2014?  I would love to hear them!

MORE PRAISE FOR MY LORD JESUS CHRIST:

I had always longed to be a foreign missionary as a teenager and young adult.  Of course, back then – there was no internet at all.  I have to cry tears of such joy to see what God is doing through this blog. It is beyond my ability to wrap my head around the things that are possible through His power working in my life.  I long to be an open pipe that allows His Spirit to flood through like Niagra Falls into every life I touch.

I could die today at total peace with my life  and all that God has done in my life- my walk with Christ, my marriage, my children, the ministry God has given to me.  I can’t wait to meet each of you in heaven and to see all that God did that I still don’t even know about and all of the ripple effects around the world.  I have no regrets.  What a blessing to be able to say that!?!?!  I’m so thankful for the privileges God has given me.  Please pray that I might be faithful to Jesus to use this platform for His glory and that His truth, wisdom, love, grace and mercy might reign here and bless everyone He desires to bring here.

VIEWS BY COUNTRY IN 2013 ON PEACEFULWIFE

Country	Views
United States	789,734
United Kingdom	57,450
Canada	54,169
Australia	30,006
India	14,156
South Africa	13,564
Philippines	10,653
Singapore	10,326
Germany	5,377
Nigeria	5,180
Malaysia	5,042
Sweden	4,794
Kenya	4,027
Netherlands	4,007
New Zealand	3,967
Ireland	3,768
France	3,484
United Arab Emirates	3,068
Norway	2,685
Indonesia	2,528
Finland	2,285
Taiwan	2,179
Pakistan	2,052
Poland	1,866
Zimbabwe	1,843
Ghana	1,805
Mexico	1,739
Italy	1,467
Denmark	1,414
Saudi Arabia	1,367
Trinidad and Tobago	1,319
Brazil	1,237
Jamaica	1,165
Japan	1,134
Oman	1,103
Switzerland	1,096
Uganda	1,061
Qatar	1,025
Hong Kong	989
Spain	964
Turkey	963
Greece	916
Republic of Korea	911
Namibia	896
Belgium	767
Romania	699
Rwanda	666
Egypt	637
Hungary	599
Thailand	592
Israel	574
Russian Federation	563
Macao	528
Zambia	525
Croatia	512
Sri Lanka	511
Austria	510
Bulgaria	417
Jersey	415
Puerto Rico	404
Botswana	403
Bahamas	386
Kuwait	358
United Republic of Tanzania	337
Lebanon	324
Argentina	320
Estonia	319
Bahrain	295
Bangladesh	289
Slovenia	273
Portugal	259
Czech Republic	249
Lithuania	230
Colombia	227
Ethiopia	223
Jordan	214
Dominican Republic	214
Viet Nam	212
Peru	212
Mauritius	211
Cyprus	201
Malawi	200
Costa Rica	200
Morocco	200
Cameroon	198
Brunei Darussalam	191
Barbados	189
Ukraine	188
Malta	178
Panama	173
Guam	168
Belize	168
Honduras	162
Bermuda	158
Serbia	158
Guatemala	155
Maldives	150
Papua New Guinea	150
Albania	136
Senegal	130
Fiji	128
Cambodia	125
Uruguay	120
Ecuador	120
Guyana	119
Slovakia	119
Guernsey	113
Tunisia	113
Nepal	113
Antigua and Barbuda	108
Chile	107
Iraq	104
Algeria	103
Bosnia and Herzegovina	100
Latvia	81
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic	79
Venezuela	77
Moldova	76
Iceland	72
Dominica	68
Saint Lucia	65
Azerbaijan	61
Georgia	60
Lesotho	59
Aruba	52
Libya	51
Armenia	47
Bolivia	47
Virgin Islands	46
Mozambique	45
Swaziland	44
Bhutan	43
Palestinian Territory, Occupied	42
Cayman Islands	42
China	42
Myanmar	40
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	39
Nicaragua	39
Luxembourg	39
El Salvador	39
Haiti	37
Afghanistan	37
Isle of Man	36
Yemen	34
Mongolia	34
Gambia	34
Syrian Arab Republic	34
Turks and Caicos Islands	29
Sudan	26
Saint Kitts and Nevis	25
Liberia	24
Paraguay	24
Angola	23
Grenada	23
Anguilla	21
Guadeloupe	21
Belarus	21
Kazakhstan	21
British Virgin Islands	20
Montenegro	19
Seychelles	18
Suriname	18
Northern Mariana Islands	18
Burundi	18
Togo	17
Côte d’Ivoire	15
Gibraltar	15
Solomon Islands	15
Democratic Republic of the Congo	14
Gabon	9
Faroe Islands	9
Samoa	8
Micronesia, Federated States of	7
Burkina Faso	7
Lao People’s Democratic Republic	7
Niger	7
Equatorial Guinea	7
New Caledonia	7
Vanuatu	6
Djibouti	6
American Samoa	5
Kyrgyzstan	5
Uzbekistan	5
Kiribati	5
Benin	4
Somalia	4
Congo	4
French Guiana	4
Mali	4
Timor-Leste	4
Palau	3
Tajikistan	3
Martinique	3
Réunion	3
Eritrea	3
French Polynesia	3
Sierra Leone	2
Cape Verde	2
Guinea	2
Andorra	2
Monaco	1
Greenland	1
Madagascar	1
Marshall Islands	1
Åland Islands	1
Liechtenstein	1