Day 198 Honoring My Husband With Resistance

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Today we had such a great time at the family cookout.  It is always so wonderful to see how the younger generation has grown, to see how the babies are no longer babies, and to watch as folks who passed each other every day but did not know they were related find out that they are.  We have a very large family and I am always amazed that this still happens at least once a year. It actually happened to me at a cookout for my paternal family a while back.  It was the first time that side of my family had gotten together and there stood a former high school classmate.  I thought he was married to a cousin and turns out he was the cousin.  We had spent four years in the same homeroom during high school and never knew we were related.   Amazing!

In any event today I honored my husband with resistance.  I love, absolutely love motorcycles. Yet my husband does not.  Today one of my cousin's arrived at the cookout with about 10 of his motorcycle buddies.  I truly wanted to ask one of them to give me a ride but knew that riding on the back of a stranger's motorcycle is probably not very honorable of my husband.  So, I resisted the temptation to get a 15 minutes thrill ride.  It reminded me of the story I shared about Holly Robinson-Peete honoring her husband by changing doctors.  Bryan never said a word to me about it.  He saw how excited I was about the possibility yet I knew in my heart he would not have been happy about the idea.

Today I honored my husband by resisting the temptation to do something I love.  It would have been great to have my cousin give me a ride but he had just gotten his license and did not feel ready to have a passenger.  Unfortunately for me, he would have been the only one where it would have been acceptable.  Obviously it was not meant to be.

Wives of the world in what ways can you or do you honor your husband's with resistance?  What choice have you, would you or do you make when it comes to choosing to do something you love or honoring your husband?  Please share your stories with us; we would love to hear from  you.

Blessings,

Rochelle

"Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory." Frederick William Faber