Encouragements For Wives

Learning To Truly Love

2018-10-26

This is a guest post by my friend Ruth Schwenk from The Better Mom! This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.” —1 JOHN 3:16 Have you ever felt unappreciated as a mom? Have you ever felt frustrated by your kids’ seeming indifference about all you do for them? Guess what? You are not alone. And it’s tough to love when you don’t always get a return. Of course, at times we get a cute card, a text message, or a thank- you. But more often than not, what we do seems to go unnoticed and unappreciated. So we need to guard our hearts

Download A Free 5-Day Marriage Devotion!

2018-09-06

My heart and passion is to encourage wives to fulfill their role in marriage, to understand the God-given purpose we have as wives, and to challenge us all to embrace intimacy in our relationship with God and our husbands. So I have created a 5-Day Devotion called Embrace True Intimacy With the release of my book The Unveiled Wife, I was inspired to take a few excerpts and create brief devotions out of them just for you! I believe this 5-Day Devotion can make a huge impact for marriages as they will encourage wives (and the husbands whom they share it with) find biblical teaching and practical tips for embracing true intimacy with God and in marriage. Each day targets a specific aspect I bring

A Wife’s Prayer For Her Husband

2018-09-05

Dear Lord, Thank you for your unconditional love for me. I am so undeserving, yet you pursue me daily! Thank you for your grace and for your perfect provision. I am so blessed and grateful for my life and for { insert husband’s name } life. Thank for trusting us with each other’s hearts, blessing us with the covenant of marriage. You have given us an opportunity to love each other unconditionally and sometimes that is hard to do, but I ask Lord, that you would help us to love like you love. Please show me how to be a joyful wife, a compassionate wife, a humble wife, and a truly forgiving wife. I pray for wisdom. I pray that you would equip { insert husband’s name } and I with

A Christian Postpartum Course That Every Expecting Mom Needs | Review

2018-08-03

I am 38 ½ weeks pregnant with our fourth child. We are so excited to meet this little one! With labor, delivery, and postpartum on the horizon, I went through my friend Angie’s Christian Postpartum Course. Angie was my doula for both Olive and Wyatt. We are hoping she can make it to this birth as well, however as she is also in her third trimester we are keeping those plans tentative. Angie has personally walked me through two very different postpartum journeys. Her expertise and passion for helping mothers during this crucial season has been an incredible blessing to me. As labor, delivery, and postpartum approach for me once again, I wanted to be proactive in preparing for this adventure. I just completed the

Connecting With Your Spouse In The Middle Of The Craziness

2018-07-12

This is a guest post by my friend Katie M. Reid, author of Made Like Martha: Good News For The Woman Who Gets Things Done. Katie writes: We want to be faithful with what (and who) has been entrusted to us, but it’s difficult to connect with God, our spouse, and our kids in the craziness of life. My husband and I recently celebrated our 17th wedding anniversary. Five loud and wonderful children are a sweet by-product of our union (ranging from two to fourteen). As you can imagine our calendar is full and our days are busy. It’s tricky to have an uninterrupted conversation with each other during the day. But if we wait to connect at bedtime, we don’t often have much left

His Prayer For Me Last Night

2018-05-15

My husband has always had a heart to pray with me at the end of the day. I love this about him. He is consistent and reminds me to never neglect that God is the most important thing in our lives. Last night, while our heads lay on our pillows, he asked me if I felt cherished. I told him of course I did! It was mother’s day and it was a good mother’s day. It was a full day. My heart was full of gratitude, yet as I lay exhausted in bed, my mind was overwhelmed. I exhaled a long breath and muttered about the messes made over the weekend that have me going into the week a little chaotic, the work we have