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for day one in the Grow With Love project of templates and/or prompts – you can follow along on our blogs (zinniasandswallowtails.com and everydayramblings.com)credits:Grow With Love by zinnias and swallowtails and Designs by Crystal Livesay available at After Five Designs and OscrapsComposure and Composure Plus by TaylorMade Designs available at Oscrapsjournaling reads: when I think of “one word” that I hope will be a foundation and a compass for our marriage, I was drawn immediately to “respect”. Interestingly enough had I asked myself this question 10 years ago I think it likely that I’d choose something more “romantic” and also therefore a little more superficial. But in ten years I’ve matured. We’ve matured. And our entire focus in our relationship has shifted from you and me individually and as a unit to Christ. And that changes everything. Respect for me comes from Ephesians 5:33 wherein husband is called to love his wife as himself and wife to respect her husband. What each is commanded to do, is not necessarily the thing that comes easiest. But it is in many ways what is most valued by the other. The younger me, the one less connected to my faith, would have taken objection to this (and other passages) in scripture..I would have thought it put husband and wife on unequal footing. But my entire view on this has changed as I *know* that in God’s eyes we are equals, before him we have the same value. He loves each of us wholly and beautifully. Instead, it’s a matter of guiding us to a place of healthfulness in our marriage. God knows our needs as man and woman, husband and wife. And he’s nudging us to meet them for each other, all the while with eyes focused on him. I’ve realized that rather than “submitting” myself to you, I am “submitting” myself to Christ. And there is no surer footing on which to stand. I know that in doing so, our marriage will be able to weather any storm. And so I hope to center my own actions around this one word. Because I trust in Him and because I want to, with my whole heart, honor you and be the best wife to you I can be.TFL!!
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