One of my greatest wishes...

is to be able to be a godly wife. Neither a morning nor an evening prayer time goes by without my including in my prayers a small set of always present petitions. Other elements come and go as I feel moved to pray for someone or something in particular...be it confession of my own shortcomings, a call for help in overcoming a character flaw that I'm struggling with, an ill friend, someone going through a particularly trying time, a situation that needs God's loving touch, or simply one of my residents who, through their words or actions that day, made apparent their need to have someone praying for them...any one of those things, and many more could easily make their way into my prayers at any given time. But there are a few elements which are constant parts of my prayers, among them is my prayer for God to mold me and form me into the woman and the wife that He calls me to be.

I feel so deeply blessed by my loving and compassionate husband. That blessing makes fulfilling God's expectations of me in my role as a wife that much more important to me. Not that I don't want to fulfill God's expectations in all areas of my life...I do...despite the fact that I know that as a flawed person I am not capable of such perfection...it's just that I take my responsibilities as my husband's helpmate to heart in a more personal way than I think I do with some of the other things that God calls me to be and do.

For that reason, I'm always on the lookout for inspirations and ideas that help me to convey the love and honor I feel to my spouse. Sometimes new ideas just sort of 'come to me' but other times I have a difficult time with having an original thought on anything at all...at those times I search out ideas of others which I might could adapt or build on to create something 'just right' for my beloved. That brings me to the main point of this particular post and that is simply this...from time to time I will post some of the 'romantic gestures' that I have done for my sweetheart in hopes that I might inspire someone else to (at least for a moment) make their marriage commitment to their spouse and to God a priority in their day. The flip side of that is that if you happen across this blog and would like to share some of your own ideas with me, well...I'd be grateful.