Keeper Journal #4

Our topic for the week was "Loving Our Husbands" and all the various aspects. The point that was the most beneficial to me was on the last day of the homework. The author had us write down the various verses from Proverbs 31:10-31 that talk about how the woman cares for, looks after, etc. her household or husband. I always seemed to think of "That Woman" as always busy doing things, but I guess this exercise made me stop and think why she was doing all those things. She was always thinking of someone else - wanting to see her husband recognized and blessed and her household not disturbed by all the trials. She was just a rock of faith as she could laugh at the days to come or of hardships to endure or of the pending weather, whatever. Of course, as women we are more like the boat tossed by the waves. We're riding the waves of emotion with whatever circumstances or hormones or bad thoughts come our way. Stand firm, build your house(hold) on the Rock. That's what we need. Teach us, Lord, because we can have victory over our emotions!