Marriage Devotionals For Wives

My husband left his Bible out and open to the book of James on the desk in our office. I pulled it closer to me and started reading. Being only a few weeks away from giving birth to our 3rd baby, I found it interesting how James mentions birth in Chapter 1. …each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.” – James 1:14-15 This is not a very pretty correlation to birth, however, it was relevant to me as I am currently pregnant with our child and have experienced childbirth. As I was reading it, I thought about the

Have you ever noticed yourself saying, I don’t have time for (this) right now!” I have said it, countless times. I have heard others say it, repeatedly. I think it is one of those most used sentences in our language, but I haven’t done any official research. What I know from 30 years of personal experience, is that this phrase is used quite frequently. I wanted to bring it up because I was sharing in conversation with a friend of mine and I heard it slip out of her mouth. She may have intentionally said it and meant it, but I am not sure she understood the repercussions of that power statement in her life a few years from now. This got me thinking. In

The world seems to be burning up in flames. There is chaos everywhere I look. My social/news feeds never fail to share with me daily violence that is erupting in streets around the world. Car bombs, shootings, stabbings, aggressive protests, fires raging, hate fueling, and fear hovering over every one of us. And all that is on top of natural disasters, heat waves and famines, lack of drinking water, and other horrific conditions burdening people all over. My heart is twisted in knots. My mind is racing. I wrestle with anxiety and I have to push back fear as if it were an intruder. I worry about what is going on all over the globe, because I truly care. And it is such a challenge