Lyrics to an Ispiring Song

A friend asked me today if I had heard this song.  I had not, and it is really inspiring.  God said, "It is not good that man is alone."  The author of the lyrics explains from a man's perspective why a woman's presence is good for him, and these lyrics inspire me to be such a woman the author describes.

"Something In The Way She Moves"

Something in the way she moves, or looks my way, or calls my name
that seems to leave this troubled world behind.
And if I'm feeling down and blue or troubled by some foolish game,
she always seems to make me change my mind..

And I feel fine anytime she's around me now, she's around me now almost about all the time.
And if I'm well you can tell she's been with me now.
She's been with me now quite a long, long time and I feel fine.

Every now and then the things I lean on lose their meaning
and I find myself careening in places where I should not let me go.
She has the power to go where no one else can find me and to silently remind me
of the happiness and the good times that I know, and then I just got to go then.

It isn't what she's got to say but how she thinks and where she's been.
To me, the words are nice, the way they sound.
I like to hear them best that way, it doesn't much matter what they mean.
she says them mostly just to calm me down

And I feel fine anytime she's around me now, she's around me now almost about all the time.
And if I'm well you can tell she's been with me now.
She's been with me now quite a long, long time and I feel fine.
JAMES TAYLOR

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Putting "Being a Secretary" into Practice Earned Me Respect, Making Me Confident

Today I called the chiropractor.  I set up an appointment for my husband.  If I want a sense of respect, as a worldly secretary feels from getting trained for a job and being paid paychecks for, I need to command it!  Why not earn the sense of respect right within the home that secretaries do, except for me, right inside my home, as a helpmeet to my man?  I confidently told the secretary with the confident yet raspy voice that would normally intimidate me: "Hi, do you have any openings for tomorrow?  I'm calling to make an appointment for my husband."  She named four slot times.  I said to her, "Could you please hold on a moment, and I'll ask him?"  (Isn't that what a worldly secretary would do - a secretary who is on the phone making an appointment for her boss?  Except I am abiding in my home - I've got the pureness of heart going for me.)  My husband named the time of his preference to me from where he was relaxing.  I got back on the telephone and told her his choice.  I was confident!  And the result?  I earned respect from the owner of this raspy voice.  Next time I have an appointment to make for my man, I will add to my confidence.  This is to the glory of God.

Be A Secretary to Your Husband

                I keep this blog to encourage you as you strive to be more virtuous.  If you do not want to be more virtuous, I hope that you will at least not despise me for having hope for my future.  I blog about actively striving to be a virtuous woman.  I got ideas for what kind of marriage I want to have before I got married.  As a baby before birth, God is knitting it together in its mother’s womb.  As a young person wanting marriage, I got ideas of what kind of marriage I wanted, and God was preparing me.  When a marriage is started, it’s like a new person is born.  The two become one person.  I didn’t understand what someone said to me before I got married like I do now.  She was talking about reputation and what people think of an individual.  She said, “There’s the guy and there’s the girl and then, there’s the guy and girl.”  I do not tell you of my own experiences to brag to say how good it is what I have done.  I blog to give you inspiration for your own marriage, ideas to make it good.  God gets the glory for what I do. 

                I’ve been keeping in mind lately “being my husband’s secretary.”  That means make his phone calls.  It means answer the phone, if he wants you to.  This is all within the home aspect of things, not really to do with my husband’s job since he does not work for himself.  Those wives of you whose husbands work for themselves or who have a home business right inside the home, you can hands on be the secretary!  Go all out!  What do worldly secretaries do who are not abiding in their homes?  Do it, but you get to do it with all pureness of heart… bring him his favorite tea.  Make his coffee just the way he likes it.  Bring him juice.  By all means, take care of him if he’s ill.  Bring him medicine.  Bring it to him in a special way, like on a special plate.  Where I am with all this is I’ve got to make my husband an appointment for a teeth clean he asked me to do.  I tried today and couldn’t get through, gave a report to him about it, and he said to try again tomorrow. 

A Better Outlook and Attitude from Three Revelations ~Guest Entry

This is an article a friend wrote to me personally, and it really got me knowing that I am not alone, as a wife, in the journey of stepping heavenward.

Not too long ago, I realized that I was feeling uptight and stressed most of the time. I was emotionally exhausted, and felt trapped, but I couldn't put my finger on what was creating this dilemma. Then, a few days ago, three things came into focus that have lifted this sense of bondage.

For a while now, I have been setting aside the time right after I put my one year old down for her nap to read the Scriptures and pray. It has been a real blessing, but what I really wanted was to get up early enough in the mornings to have my time alone with God then. It's been a real struggle though, and for one reason or another, I just haven't been making that happen. The last two mornings, however, I have been able to get up and give my God the firstfruits of my day. It's amazing what a difference it makes, and how much better my whole day goes!

Then, a few days ago, I realized that I have been avoiding conflict with my daughter at the price of allowing some bad habits to start taking root. I didn't want to tell her "no" too often, so I had been letting her do things that made life more complicated for my husband and I, and didn't encourage contentment and submission in her. I knew something didn't feel right, but I didn't realize I was starting my precious little girl down the wrong path. I'm so thankful the Father brought this to my attention!

The third area I have been struggling in is cooking. I haven't really been putting my heart onto it, and my husband has been feeling (or eating!) the consequences of my poorly planned meals. Preparing dinner has become a rather stressful activity for me, and I get frustrated and discouraged. But I've decided that that's no longer the way I want to operate. As a wife and mother, one of the main ways that I can love and serve my family is by nourishing them with good, tasty, and stress-free food! So rather than just half heartedly throwing things together, I want to make this an art and really perfect it, and learn to make food that my husband truly enjoys. This means better planning, better preparation, and laying down some habits and mindsets I've been holding on to that don't fit our little family. And though this sounds like more work, it's actually quite freeing to just give in to doing things God's way.

These three recent "revelations" have allowed me to organize and prioritize my days, have given me a better outlook and attitude about my tasks, and have freed me to take the steps necessary to train my daughter in a way that will honor God, and prepare her heart to submit to Him and will make our home a more peaceful place. Truly, God is faithful, and to those who seek Him (even in the middle of the day during their daughter's naptime), He will reveal His will.

The Right Thing To Do - Trust

My daughter has not learned to get off the bed yet by herself, and while I was teaching her this morning, I told her I’d help and I put my hand under the foot that was coming off and pressed my hand up against the bottom of her foot so she would know it was there and feel the presence of safety.  I wondered about my relationship with God and what I am afraid of.  As long as I do what is right in my relationship with God and trust Him then all will be well and there will be success and progression.  My daughter trusted my hand and got off the bed safely and gave me a hug.

Consistency

I have not been good with being consistent in the life of my marriage.  To be 100% consistent in all areas is a big (on-going project), and my life as a wife is no exception.  My desire is to become so completely consistent that my husband can count on me.  My desire is to be trusted no matter what happens in a day.