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I Will Honor My Husband blog site began as a wife's journey to love, honor and cherish her husband everyday for one full year in 2011. The experience was so awesome that I am continuing the journey. As the Lord guides me I will continue to post about how I am honoring my husband on at least a weekly basis. This blog is for me and other wives to learn how to be more intentional in demonstrating our love, honor and respect for our husbands in a way that matters to them most. Last year it was a challenge and a goal to make it a habit, this year I hope to realize the habit as a way of life. I welcome, encourage and invite you to - Join the Movement! and let the world know you honor your husband.

My prayer is that marriages and lives will be changed across the globe by the expression of "One Year of Love". Please send me a picture of you and your husband so the world will know you have joined the movement.

Rochelle

"The Lord, your God is testing you to find out whether you love him with all your heart and all your soul." Deut. 13:3

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Day 39 - Honoring My Husband With A Choice

Today was a very good, productive and relational day. My plan was to spend the day preparing to write a huge paper that is due for school, so I spent several hours at my office away from home (Panera Bread) reading, writing and contemplating my topic.  In the morning, on my way to Panera Bread I remembered that we had tickets for couple's night this evening at my home church. 

I had forgotten we had tickets to attend the event and contemplated not going.  I originally thought about it as a conflict, on one end I wanted to go and on the other I wanted to continue working on my paper. I then realized it was not a conflict, but a choice.  So today I honored my husband with a choice.  I had stated a few weeks ago that I wanted us to have a regular date night.  We go out to dinner, the movies and other activities on a frequent basis, but we do not necessarily classify those times as date night.  To me there is something special about the intentionality of having a date night.  Because I had stated this is what I wanted to do, I then realized my dilemma was not a conflict but a choice.  So today I honored my husband with a choice by choosing us and having a date night.

I was very glad I made the choice because we saw a very good, thought provoking Christian movie.  To me it was a great reminder that nothing is coincidental, everything is orchestrated by the Lord.  It was also a great reminder that we can make all the plans we like, ultimately the plan that happens is the one created by God.  Today I honored my husband with a choice because I wanted to continue something I had asked for by having a date night, I honored my husband with a choice because I wanted to choose us over school and because he was willing to give up his night watching the NCAA tournament to attend to my request.

Wives of the world, in what way can you honor your husband by turning a conflict into a choice?  Please share your story with us; we would love to hear from you.

Rochelle

This is what the LORD says: ‘Take your choice" 1st Chron. 21:11

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