The Wisdom of your wife

Today I was so blessed to receive a text message from my beautiful wife. It was a message full of wisdom and of love. I do so love her. She is my great equalizer, my sounding board, and my biggest fan, or my most pointed critic. In my life there are priorities; God, Linda, Family, Church, Friends and all else. She is the in to my out, the up to my down, the right to my left and the quiet strength to my loudness. I pray that she will not mind if I share her wisdom with you. Her counsel can well apply to other souls who need that strong encouragement and feminine touch.

This is her Wisdom:

Focus on the task at hand. Do not allow yourself to drift away from what you are working on right now.

Write notes if you are afraid you might forget something. Then return to the task at hand, free of other things, people (including the wife) that might detract you from the task at hand.

People will always call you to ask you to help them in some way. Your heart always wants to say yes. That is a beautiful way to think. But you are only one person. The Lord doesn't expect you to stretch yourself so thin that you are useless to him.

Save days where you are not expected to do something or be somewhere. Your bride, who , in a normal situation, acting from a standpoint of being healed, can be a great resource for you.

So you are doing more things now, that normally She would do, and She wants to be a full participant on the team. God sees your heart and your Bride sees your heart too. Your heart is 90 % of the reason she fell in love with you in the first place.

So, when someone calls or texts or otherwise asks you for help with something, it IS OKAY to say, let me think about that, or let me pray on that, or let me check with my wife on that, or a number of other answers. Unless it is an emergency, you do not have to answer right away. And sometimes you CAN say, I am sorry but I don't think I am the person who could be best for that, but thank you for thinking of me.

I write this to you, because I have been in situations like that during my lifetime, and have learned from the past, that you can't be everything to everybody. Nor should you be.

You can only be you , a wonderful creation of God. Only God can be everywhere and everything all at the same time.

These are my thoughts and I see you much differently than others do.

You are the love of my life and I thank God for you every day.

Have you read your Bible today?