Let me start off my introducing myself... my name is Jessica and I am a ordinary housewife who loves the Lord. I may not always act like a Christian, you may not recognize it in my walk or how I talk. Trust me, I am working on this. The Lord has had me working on my mouth and showing me that what comes out of my mouth is in direct correlation to what is in my heart. Matthew15:18 "But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart." Sometimes in life I have a hard time closing my mouth. I spout out mean things without thinking of who I am hurting or what harm it is causing. Then after I am not angry anymore I spend the rest of the day feeling horrible about what I have said to that person. Being a wife is hard. Period. My husband is an amazing and extremely patient man who loves me like no other has. When we first got married I thought "ok, this is going to be fantastic! I get to live with my best friend, nothing about him bothers me etc. etc." now we have been married almost three years and there are things that bother me, there are things that are annoying and that I was always trying to "change" about him. Then I met an AMAZING woman of God she taught me that you can't change your husband you can only change yourself and that everytime I got upset over something that annoyed me I should pray about it using scripture. I Corinthians: 13-4:8 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. it always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always preserves. Love never fails. I thought to myself... but it's not me that needs to change! It is him! He is the one who does not pick up his dirty laundry. Yes, sadly this was our big fight and made my life quite miserable for a time. I refused to pick up his laundry until it was about 3 feet high on the side of the bed, then finally caved and did it all. I would sulk and be mad about this laundry all day until he would come home from a VERY long day at work and would want to argue over laundry. Instead, I should have met him at the door with a big hug and kiss hello. Proverbs 31:12 "She does him good and not harm all the days of her life." Over and over again those words would ring in my head... "you can't change your husband you can only change yourself and you must PRAY about what is annoying you." I thought to myself but how can I pray to the Lord about laundry? Surely the Lord does not want to know about my petty fights with my husband... then I realized HE DOES. He wants to know everything that goes on in my life. So, began my journey of talking to the Lord about everything which opened up so many other doors in my prayer life. I am not perfect nor am I claiming to be. I love the Lord with all my heart and have no idea where I would be in life if the Lord had not come and saved me. But, that is a story for another day :) Be blessed today!
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