It’s easy to see for anyone that watches or reads the news or has social media, that we live in a world that has little value for human life. We worship me, myself, and I, and we see children, handicapped, and the elderly as a burden and a hindrance to our lives, finances, relationships, education, and careers. We live in …
For the audio version click here: https://anchor.fm/patriarchywife/episodes/Women-Love-Your-Children-e14bg6i Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good, so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, (Titus 2:3-4) At first glance this verse might be easy to gloss over. Of …
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; t does not rejoice at wrong doing but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 1 Corinthians 3:8-12 I have …
When I was growing up we would have never have used the phrase “I am bored” I don ‘t know at what point I became aware of it but we just knew that if we were to say that or any variation of it, we would promptly be put to work. We were taught to work around our home and …
How can we make our homes more of a refuge from the storms of discontent that rage in the world? The endless advertisements telling us that we are not pretty enough, or thin enough or make enough money. Telling us , lying to us, constantly that the very next “thing” will finally make us happy. If Mom is not happy …
I love Elizabeth Elliot. A wonderful straightforward woman of God said -Contentment is a command. My mother used to say “Behave yourselves.” Contentment is really taking yourself by the scruff of the neck and behaving yourself when you are feeling discontent about anything. It’s being still.” Contentment is the heart of a woman content and at peace with her Savior, …
I see around me a world that seeks happiness and contentment in things, feelings, people and even self. Their god, as ours once was, was our selves. Seeking to satisfy our souls with empty minutes of what we thought was happiness. In reality, it was merely distractions for our insatiable appetite for sin. It was all about me. There is …