Giveaway winner and marriage discussion

I am so excited to have so many of my windows open. I am seriously enjoying the sounds of many birds chatting about this brand new spring and watching squirrels dart across my back deck. We hav a rabbit we have deemed Smalls. He has small ears. It is actually a nickname of one of the soldiers in Band of Brothers. As our Smalls darts around the back yard hiding in the wood pile, then the brush, wearily pearing at us deciding friend or foe, he is kind of like a little soldier.

Now for the Proverbs 12 drawing winner. Melissa at Desring To Be a Godly Woman, it is my desire to gift you with the Oswald Chambers' My Utmost for His Highest. Melissa shared with us that Proverbs 12:4 is a verse particular to her heart.

Proverbs 12:4 "A wife of noble character is her husband's crown, but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones."

Melissa wrote, "As wives, we need to be aware that we are a reflection on our husbands. I need to be careful of the things I do, say and feel because it can effect my husband in a positive or negetive way. A good wife will be praised by her husband. A bad wife will bring him down...slowly."

Being married is an opportunity to have some one for you always. I love being my husband's cheerleader. While the rest of the world sees Clark Kent, I want him to know I see Super Man and I make sure he knows it. There are times when my feelings, thoughts, words, or actions try to tear down his confidents and they try to get me to think he isn't all God made him to be that he is God's creation. It isn't an easy process to always be for my husband. Don't think this doesn't mean we have many differences of opinions, that sometimes I don't like his choices that I like when he is cranky. What I mean is that even if we argue, even if we don't agree, even if one of us or both of us are in a bad mood, I do not think any of those things makes him a lesser man, less than who God made him to be or less than the man I continuouly grow more in love with every day.

In turn, I am blessed with a man who is for me. He makes me his number one priority and often makes sacrifices for me. I make him my number one priority and make sacrifices for him. It is an awesome cycle.

What an awesome topic, I could go on about it for ever. I want to share with you the three verses God put before me in Proverbs 12, but I will do it in three other posts. This post I want to commit completely to marriage. I've also been listening to a radio show Melissa suggested I listen to regarding friendship. I'm gonna have a lot to share on that as well as soon as I can really digest all the important wisdom in it.

I would love to hear from you regarding your own thoughts on this topic about marriage. What are some ways you work to build your significant other up?

I'll start us off with my own comment.