AN UPDATE AND A BOOK REVIEW (SORT OF)

It's day 6 of my 30 day challenge in encouraging my husband. The first day he was a little surprised at my comments, but I didn't let on about the challenge. I have kept up with the challenge and tried to find ways to praise him and different ways to greet him in the morning. Nothing earth shattering has happened. I don't know if I expected it would. Maybe I hope this will change him a little; how, I don't know. But I think this challenge will end up changing me instead. I'm feeling more cheerful and looking at my husband a little differently. Do you have that book by Stormie Omartian called The Power of a Praying Wife? What's funny about that book is that probably a lot of women buy it in hopes of changing their husbands. But she wisely puts the emphasis in the right place right at the beginning of the book. The first chapter is about being the right kind of wife and the longest prayer is in that chapter. We'll see what happens with this challenge. I'll keep updating the situation.

I wanted to give you a quote from a book I was reading because I think it would be fun to have y'all guess when the book was written. Here's the quote ~

"In addition to the widespread effects of unscriptural teaching, we also have to reckon with the deplorable superficiality of the present generation. To announce that a certain book is a treatise on doctrine is quite sufficient to prejudice against it the great bulk of church-members and most of our preachers as well. The craving today is for something light and spicy, and few have patience, still less desire, to examine carefully that which would make a demand both upon their hearts and their mental powers. We remember, also, how that it is becoming increasingly difficult in these strenuous days for those who are desirous of studying the deeper things of God to find the time which such study requires."

Take a guess in the comments section.