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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, June 4, 2011

Day 110 Honoring My Husband With Awareness

What a beautiful day it was today in Maryland.  The temperature, sunshine and breeze were another one of God's great creations.  Bryan and I had hoped to spend the afternoon enjoying the outdoors. Because of our trip to the graduation we stayed on our boat last night with the intention of spending the day together.  As life goes he had several minor but very time consuming mishaps in his business and just about everything I had intended to accomplish took longer than anticipated.

To make a long story short, 7:00 PM rolled around and Bryan found himself quite exhausted so we decided to head home to prepare for church.  We were in separate cars and as I left the marina to head home it dawned on me how tired Bryan looked when he returned to the boat.  He was slumped in the chair and said he just wanted to rest the night away.  We live an hour away from the marina and I knew it would be a struggle for him to drive home.  I turned around and told him to ride with me home so he could rest and not worry about making the drive.  I could see the sense of relief in his face.  Today I honored my husband with awareness by recognizing his need to not worry about having to find the energy to drive himself home.  I honored him by being aware of his true need without him having to ask.  He later thanked me for being very appreciative of how hard he had worked that day and offering to drive him home.

Wives of the world in what ways do you or can you honor your husband with awareness?  I would like to think that I am or have always been very aware of Bryan's need in the moment but I know that has not always been the case.  I know that the Lord is using this process to help me be more aware and in tune with the needs of my mate and how He, the Lord would have me to be as a wife.  How have you changed since embarking on this journey to be the change you want to see by honoring your husband?  What are you more aware of today than before joining this movement?  Please share your stories with us; we would love to hear and learn from you.

Blessings,

Rochelle

"Through awareness, you get a certain attitude.  That's the way, you see, to achieve more peaceful, more compassion, more friendship through that way."  Dalai Lama

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