The Sister Challenge

"A wife should learn to communicate truthfully and not say one thing while meaning another."

This chapter is very convicting in that my husband has learned to read me and me seeing how unfair that has been to him...don't get me wrong it's a blessing but that he had to learn it makes me sad. I am such a slyer a term thrown around in my community for people like me who are of the S personality and communicate dishonestly...hoping and praying someone will dig a little deeper and find the truth....

The 2nd part that got me " But the thoughtful nature of love teaches you to engage your mind before engaging your lips. Love thinks before speaking. It filters words through a grid of truth and kindness."....prior to that "Thoughtlessness is a silent enemy to a loving relationship."

I am often unkind and thoughtless and in the slying posturing myself as both.....today to live with my mind engaged, seeing my true nature and in Your help Abba to be changed....In the reading this morning is just such encouragement...2 Cor. 1:^20-22Whatever God has promised gets stamped with the Yes of Jesus. In him, this is what we preach and pray, the great Amen, God's Yes and our Yes together, gloriously evident. God affirms us, making us a sure thing in Christ, putting his Yes within us. By his Spirit he has stamped us with his eternal pledge—a sure beginning of what he is destined to complete.

He's not done w/me yet and submitted to His will and committed to leading my heart wherever He says go = HOPE