Every woman has a great strength to bring to her marriage: the “superpower” of femininity.
By femininity, I do not mean pink, ruffles, or lace.
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As women embrace godly femininity, they regain not only a forgotten strength but also a God-revealing glory.
Blessings to you,
Tami
The President got a bit emotional this morning over the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize homosexual unions.
I did, too.
In fact, I cried. I am absolutely brokenhearted that this nation would willingly deprive children of a mother or a father—not only deprive the children, but tell them that it is no loss.
Many are celebrating today that #LoveWins. But who wins when a child is willfully deprived of a mother or a father? This is only loss, and it is loss for everyone. This is something to be grieved.
“What sorrow for those who say that evil is good and good is evil, that dark is light and light is dark, that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter” (Isaiah 5:20, NLT).
With respect and compassion, I say that so-called “gay marriage” is neither gay nor marriage. It has no threads of dignity or health; it has no fabric of life; it has no cloth to cover shame. It is no garment of glory.
There are cheering crowds, yes. There is much applause, yes.
But the emperor has no clothes on.
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Forget working on your checklist for the ideal marriage.
Trying to achieve a certain kind of marriage can make us crazy. It can be very discouraging. But a lot of that hard work is misdirected energy. We are actually off-target when we focus on the marriage itself.
We have been called to love someone, not to create a particular kind of marriage. We do not take our marriages with us to heaven. We take people with us to heaven.
Focus on loving your spouse, serving according to his or her needs as God directs. As a result, your marriage will be blessed. But turning your eyes away from your spouse to focus on the marriage itself will bring frustration and disappointment.
We thrive when we stop trying to manipulate our marriages, and instead focus on valuing our spouses. They are the real treasures. Your husband is the real treasure. Your wife is the real treasure.
When we stand before God, we will not be evaluated by the type of marriages we had. We will be accountable, however, for the way we ministered as wives or as husbands.
We torment ourselves with continually measuring our marriages against our version of the perfect marriage. We can live free from that! Instead of evaluating our marriages, we want to evaluate ourselves as wives or husbands. Let’s pray for insight into the needs of our covenant partners, and then let’s ask God to enable us to minister to those needs according to His wisdom and purposes.
grumbling gratitude
changing your spouse accepting your spouse
evaluating your marriage evaluating yourself as a spouse
controlling your spouse serving your spouse
judging, which is claiming examining the motives of your heart
to know someone else’s motives
pursuing your own agenda pursuing Christ, the One who fully satisfies
(This material is adapted from Radiance: Secrets to Thriving in Marriage.)
Blessings to you,
Tami
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Tami Myer 