“A woman’s helping hand smooths out all the snags and wrinkles, adds the sprinkle of sugar and spreads the butter, kisses the wound, cools the fever, nurses the hunger, and finds the missing. And somehow she manages to do all of it all at once with a baby around her legs, dishes washing, dinner cooking, laundry spinning, hair flying! “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife.”
He clings to me, he is no longer alone, and I am his footstool. If we wives cannot humble our hearts to be the resting place of our husbands, we will never find ourselves bent and broken before our Lord the Christ. When God has found a place to rest his feet it is there that he is pleased to dwell and rule.” From a commenter, MML
Marriage: A Woman’s Helping Hand
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I am a lover of words and can say these are some of the most beautiful words that I have heard in a while. 🙂 And as I am soon-to-be-married, I thank you so much for your encouraging and uplifting marriage posts. They are a blessing to me, Word Warrior.
Love in Christ,
Jessica
I loved that comment too. It’s a beautiful way of writing something that is already beautiful by God’s design. What a great blessing it is that as mothers and wives we are not “slaves” as so many think it to be. Rather, we are help meets who can experience great freedom when we submit ourselves to God’s ordinance. How ironically beautiful is that?
I loved this when she wrote it, so beautifully depicted.
That is awesome!!!! Praise the Lord! Thank you for those thoughtful, blessed words! Especially about being a footstool and humbling ourselves…wow!
Very true and well worded. Thank you!
I appreciated these words the first time– and and again today. It is a good reminder. Couple this series with Wednesday night bible study on James, “Taming the Tongue” and I have been so very aware of myself, my attitude, my words, my actions this week. It has been a good thing, and I hope God produces a gentler me.
I also think these thoughts have been timely with Valentines Day around the corner. It is the time people go out of their way to say “I love you”, but the glitz that flies with this holiday is so meaningless if our actions have not been attesting to our love all along. I want my husband to know I love him, 365 days a year. Thank you.
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The OP is beautifully said.
In fact, I think I’ll save it and tuck it in the pages of Passionate Housewives, or some similar work 🙂
Love where in your last post you said we are to be about the Kingdom of God and not the Kingdom of Me. So true!!!
Biblically, we must remember that the husband is also at the wife’s feet, washing them in humility, taking the “lower place,” as Christ did for the church.
In my opinion and experience, a great Christian marriage is one where both partners are quick to tend to the other’s (metaphorical) feet. 🙂
I’m posting this on my family blog…great reminder!! 🙂