Praises of a Wife and Mommy

Many of you know that my husband and I have a youth ministry.  If there is one thing that I have a hard time trying to get in the teenage girl heads is waiting waiting waiting on a boyfriend/husband.  It is so hard when the world tells us to be happy we need a boyfriend.  UGGG  BARF!  Girls, God wants your whole heart so just give it to him and you will be amazed...just wait and see!  I know God's timing is perfect but I also understand and know how hard it is too wait.   Sometimes I think young girls think, "once I have a boyfriend I will be happy."  Let me just say that no man is going to bring HAPPINESS...God will.  He will fill your heart up.  Yes, there is joy and happiness in marriage but God needs to be the center of it.   So keep dancing with GOD... don't get in a hurry, but eventually he will show you the man he has picked for you future husband!  Remember God brought Adam to Eve so he will bring a male to you too! ...

Don't you love seeing older couples cuddling and showing affection after being married for many years?  I DO!   I snapped this picture at church a couple weeks ago!  :)  I was sneaky.  I love this couple and I always think they are such a great testimony to marriage.  Marriage is a wonderful gift from God.   I also love seeing it because I never had any grandparents when I was growing up.  They all passed away when I was a baby.  I did adopt a few of my own from my friends grandparents!  :)  

I was in one of my devo times and was reading on youversion's active word study.  The title for the day was An Honorable Institution.   It started of talking about GOD's view of marriage.  It got me thinking a lot.  Do I view marriage the way God does?  Do you?  God views marriage as honorable.  So what does honorable really mean??  The study found the original Greek language for honorable and the word used was timios, which means to hold in high esteem or to highly respect something.  :)  VERY COOL right??   Well it gets even better... The same word timios is used to describe the gemstones that adorn the very foundation of heaven described in Revelation 21:19:   The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of PRECIOUS stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald,   NOT ONLY that but its the same word Peter used to describe Christ's redeeming...