Taking care of yourself and make up.

What makes me run the other way fast when the idea arrives of New Year's Resolutions is that you can make them any time you want, so why wait until the new year?  I came across an article recently that is called "The One New Year's Resolution Your Husband Wants You to Make."  The idea in the article that husbands want their wives to make resolutions of is that they want them to take care of themselves.  I want to take care of myself more than I have, specifically in the area of make-up.  I have never really been big into make up.  I remember "how I met make-up."  I was about 7 or 8.  I put some of my mom's make up on.  I just helped myself.  My sisters watched me put some on and giggled.  We had to go over to someone's house that day briefly, and we were standing outside visiting.  There was a little boy there about our age, and one of my sisters said when we got back home that they noticed that he was looking at me because of the make up, and she giggled about it.  I remember being proud.  Thinking about it, this is not good to be proud!  There is nothing wrong with the exciting fun side of make up, though, and wanting to be beautiful and take care of myself.  I need to guard against the pride 'cause of that tendency in my past.  I had troubles with being prideful, also, around my dad when I would have make up on later in my teens and when I got my ears pierced when I was about ten.  There is no need.  It's normal for girls to want to be beautiful and good to take care of yourself, but not good to be prideful. 

God's Love Poured Out

About a half a week ago, I asked God to pour His love out on me.  Yesterday I knew God did.  No details now, but I am so happy for God to pour out His love to me.  This blog was meant to encourage wives.  I was silently and unknowingly needing encouragement myself, and God has loved me and poured out His love to me.  As for this blog and the direction it will take, I am going to encourage wives with the love poured out God has shown to me! 

Don't Let the Sun go Down on your Venting

Something that is a sin is gossiping.  Visiting with your spouse about someone is not particularly gossiping as much as it would be in the category of a form of wrath called "venting."  Make a habit not to let it go on past a sunset.  It could be annoying to your spouse not to let something go.  If someone offended you, "got on your nerves," or frustrated you, you can talk about it to your spouse, in a godly way.  Godly for this includes rules with orderliness for boundaries, such as not letting the sun go down on your wrath.

A Trust That Produces Peace

There is a trust that produces a peace.  It is when I do what I want and need to do when I am waiting on God for His will to be accomplished.  That time of waiting while you know that what you're doing is right while you're waiting is peaceful.  When you pray for something, then you do else 'cause you can't do anything about your desire, the accomplishing of it is out of your control and out of your scope of influence, and you do want you need to, totaling resting your worries in God's care, there is peace.  In case there are other wives out there who worry and get stressed, this will encourage you.