An email from a wife who has been focusing on learning to be a godly, respectful wife who honors her husband’s leadership. Thank you to this wife for allowing me to share her story! I LOVE seeing the way God works in many different wives’ hearts and seeing all the lightbulb moments. I pray that… Continue reading A Wife Decides to Meet Her Husband’s Greatest Masculine Needs
A Minivan Update!
This is a follow up to my first post about the possibility of selling my 2006 minivan and how I trusted God and my husband with the outcome. I had wanted to possibly sell my minivan because we don’t really need so much space now that we aren’t lugging strollers, pac-n-plays and high chairs around.… Continue reading A Minivan Update!
Building Up and Affirming Our Husbands and Children
God gave us as women an incredible verbal ability and gift. I believe He did this so that we might greatly bless our families with words of life, inspiration, nurturing, edification, godly truth and encouragement! (Even if your husband is far from God – and you are focusing on I Peter 3:1-6 and desire to… Continue reading Building Up and Affirming Our Husbands and Children
Some of the Bible Verses I Use as the Basis for My Suggestions
Here are some of the verses I use as a basis for my advice – It is my goal to apply these to marriage from a wife’s perspective: Ephesians 4:29-32 Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, so… Continue reading Some of the Bible Verses I Use as the Basis for My Suggestions
Victory over Perfectionism – VIDEO
An 8 minute Peacefulwife video. (The volume issue should be resolved now! 🙂 You, my precious sister in Christ, are not going to be perfect. Not until heaven! Your husband is not going to be perfect on this earth, either. And neither are your children! The sooner you can accept that, the sooner you… Continue reading Victory over Perfectionism – VIDEO
Encouragement for Wives from HisHelper
Today’s guest post is by HisHelper. THANK YOU for this GORGEOUS post! What a blessing you are to me! May I add a beautiful bonus to our obedience to those things God has commanded us women to do? I just discovered this yesterday as I was studying Titus 2 for a group Bible study using… Continue reading Encouragement for Wives from HisHelper
A Huge Reason Why We Don’t Have God’s Power
I had a reader ask about how to stop idolatry – and that is a REALLY CRITICAL topic that deserves a good bit of attention! If we don’t get to the root of our sin and rebellion against God and completely tear out our idols – we can’t fix the real problems and we… Continue reading A Huge Reason Why We Don’t Have God’s Power
Soul Mates
Today’s guest post is by Kayla Gulick, my dear friend and sister in Christ. Check out her blog at www.lessonsofmercy.wordpress.com. I think you are about to have your mind blown. So be sure you are sitting down for this one, ladies! Almost every little (and big) girl dreams of finding her “soul mate”. I… Continue reading Soul Mates
Emotional Rollercoaster
Today’s post is a guest post by my dear friend, Kayla Gulick. I’m so glad we are learning on this journey together! You can check out her blog at www.lessonsofmercy.wordpress.com. Did a time come to mind when you read the title of this post? I rode the emotional rollercoaster of life more times than… Continue reading Emotional Rollercoaster
Avoiding Legalism
Is it possible to take some of the advice I give and turn it into legalism? YES! I believe that as sinful humans, we are always prone to want lists and rules. I think we can be tempted to think, “if I do all of the things on this list or follow all of these… Continue reading Avoiding Legalism