Appreciating Trust

On Tuesday, April 12, 2016, I wrote a short entry saying I had been busy since July the year before and had not blogged from about August 2015 to April 2016.  I had said I was going to re-write entries I had written from the beginning of the blog in order to record my latest perspective on the topics.

Here is the entry I am "re-writing":

                 I’ve been thinking lately about the benefits of trusting and submitting to my husband.  A couple weeks ago, I watched a bit of a video in which there was a challenge for men to convince their wives to buy some plain chairs in a furniture store.  The challenge was all set up.  The men knew about it, and the wives did not know.  The men were to just bring their wives into the furniture store, and if they could convince their wives to let them buy these plain chairs, both would win game tickets.  The wives did not know they were being video-taped.  The video showed several different couples at different times, with the same chair display, same set up in the furniture store.  All husbands knew the prize if they could convince their wives to let them buy the chairs—all they had to do was get a response of agreement from their wives.  All men tried.  Some wives were not budging with their negative answers.  Some wives seemed to just look at their husbands in disgust like they couldn’t believe their husbands would want the plain chairs.  Most wives questioned their husband’s judgment. 

But then, for one couple, the husband talked about the chairs as the other men had, and then he asked her to trust him.  She looked at him and said, “Yes.”  That was all that the men running the candid cameras needed to hear, and they made known that the couple should look under the chair seats and find ball game tickets.  It was pretty neat to watch the submissive wife and the winning man get their prize.

            I think if I trust my husband’s judgment, there are blessings and benefits that I don’t even realize before I decide to submit, that will come.

Here's my re-write: 

I still agree with this perspective.  Yes, trusting my husband is very important.  So many benefits and blessings are on the "edge" - ready to bloom - waiting for that "Yes" (I trust you.)  I am glad I am re-reading these entries from a few years ago because as I grow as a person and as a person apart of a marriage, I look back and see the old posts freshly and appreciate the heart of the messages behind them.