Try to Be Perfect

Original entry: "I am not perfect."

I am not perfect.  I hope that many of you by my posts don’t think I have it all together.  I think that by writing on a topic, it helps me to think on it, and writing on a topic and thinking on a topic helps me apply it.  For that reason, I really enjoy keeping the blog, and I encourage wives at the same time by inviting wives to write guest entries.  

I am not writing to show “what a great person I am” (‘cause I’m not: all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God). 

I am aware that there are many encouraging-wife type blogs and websites out there!  I know this, because I have been encouraged by one in particular.  I am going to tell you about it very briefly and let you do the exploring.  It’s peacefulwife.com, and the subtitle is “The Joy of God’s Design for Wives and Marriage.”  I am so glad that I have come across this website.  I am so glad for growing and studying and encouraging my friends who are wives, and I am so glad that I was not expected to be perfect on day one of my husband’s and my marriage, ‘cause I certainly was not.  I am so glad for the space and opportunities and desires from God to grow more in the area of being a better wife than I was a week or month ago.

My updated entry: I am still not perfect (of course, ha ha).  No one will be perfect until one reached Heaven and enters into God's glory there with Jesus.  I believe it is good to try to be perfect, though, just because Jesus commanded, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your father in Heaven is perfect."  I have honestly not looked at peacefulwife.com in a large while, but I had a look at it, and I am very glad that her blog is still there!  I might have a look more at it later.