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Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing. 1 Thessalonians 5:11 (NIV)
But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. Hebrews 3:13 (NIV)
Who have you bragged to about your husband? Your best friend? Your pastor? His best friend? While you are thinking about it, write a quick note to his parents to say “thank you” for raising him. Even if they didn’t do an exemplary job, they took time to raise him and some of his character traits reflect their training.
My husband was orphaned at the age of seventeen. His older sister cared for their parents during their long illnesses before their deaths and added an adolescent boy to her family. She truly is a hero.
Suggestions for letting your in-laws know you love their son:
- Write a note. Think about mail call at your house. Usually, our mail carrier brings bills. But, occasionally, I’ll find a larger, hand addressed envelope. I love getting these. It tells me someone is thinking of me. So, take the five minutes and 42c to send a card and brighten their day.
- Pick up the phone. I avoid making phone calls if I can. And I don’t love getting them. But, many people do like to chat on the phone. A phone call to say, “I’m proud of your boy” will mean a lot to his parents.
- Send a bouquet of flowers for Valentine’s Day, his birthday, and your anniversary. Yes, to his mother. She’s the one who spent umpteen hours in labor with him. Then, she trained him for you. Show her you appreciate it. By blessing a man’s mother, you bless the man.
- Send them a gift card for their favorite restaurant.
- If your husband still has younger siblings at home, offer to watch them so they can have a night out. If older siblings are at home, offer a house swap, so they can get away for some privacy.
Please share your suggestions for bragging to your in-laws.
My Turn:
Daniel has a heart for worship. His greatest desire is to please and glorify God.
Prayer:
Thank you, Lord, for being the Father to the Fatherless. I pray you would bless my in-laws now. Thank you for the blessing they gave me in their son. Let me be a blessing, in return, to them.
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February 5, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Maryellen
Well this was a tough one! My in-laws are both gone, and I honestly didn’t even take a look at the blog until now. In the meantime, I had made the decision to give my voting decision completely to my husband. I am fiercely independent in my political views, but DH and I share many of them. In the past we have always voted the same, but this time around was very different. I had prayed about the best man and thought I had my answer, but I still could not reconcile much of it or the fact that I would vote against the one my husband would have chosen. Does submitting to your husband include the voting booth?
I stood in that booth and cried. How silly am I? He would never know, and he never insisted on my obedience in this either. And then that still, small voice reminded me of Sarah. I often wonder if she pinched Abraham outside that tent before SHE WENT IN.
I came out trying not to look like I was crying after voting for the person my husband told me to choose. When it was my husbands turn, he came to find out that he had never switched from a non contending party to either the democrat/republican parties. In other words, he could not vote in the primary. LOL! So I gave him my vote. Today, I voted to believe in my God, even when I doubt my husbands decisions. I praise God for a man of prayer and good common sense. I am grateful to have had the chance to serve him, after all he does for me.
Thank you for this wonderfu challenge. It has blessed me and I hope it will bless my husband as well!