Fall Bloggy Giveaway!!! Closed for Comments..Winner to be announced!!!

I hope I get this in correctly……there is a Fall Bloggy Giveaway. Please notice the beautiful picture of the fall leaves on your right. If you click on this link it will take you directly to Shannon’s blog. She started the fall bloogy giveaway.

I will be giving away a set of 4 hand crocheted pot holders. These are special because of the thickness. They are made from 100% cotton. There are two large pot holders and two small just perfect for grabbing the handles on those casserole dishes with out dunking the rest of your potholder in the dish.

This is free. I even cover shipping and handling to mail to the winner. All you have to do is leave a comment. Make sure you leave an email address or link to your blog so that I can notify you if you are the winner.

My random number selector aka Loki the African Timneh Grey will do the drawing for me. That or one of my children.

I will be back to post a picture of what I am giving away.

Have fun with the Fall Bloggy Give Away !

I use the cones of cotton and double crochet the two together. This accounts for the thickness and allows you to even place the pot holder on the table. I love these!! I crocheted little rings on the side so they are always hanging on my stove. I also plan on including a tin of my favorite tea.

I may even give away more than one. If I do the winners will be given a choice of the colors that I have.

Thank you for visiting me and signing up for the Fall Bloggy Give Away……..

Seven Marriage Building Principles

This past weekend my husband and I attended a couples retreat. We had a lovely time of getting to know the other couples along with the Christian fellowship. I wanted to share the points that were given by the speaker Pastor Lucky Dixon and his wife Gigi Dixon.

The Seven Marriage Building Principles were drawn from Colossians 3:18-4:1.

I. Treat your spouse the way you would expect royalty to treat people. (vs 18)

Col 3:18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

The point being made here is that we are children of the King. We are royal. How would you expect royalty to treat their people? With graciousness, courtesy and respect. I must admit to having a problem with this point because of my preconceived notions that most royals we study in history were not fine examples of how they treated their people. My husband had to explain this one point. I view this point as showing our spouses that they are of great worth. When we treat our spouses as royalty we are careful to meet our spouses needs and even try to anticipate each other’s needs. We should not expect things to be of an implied nature. Yelling for the wife or kids to “Get you a drink” with out the courtesy of a please or thank you sends a different message. There is a grave misconception in the world that when a women submits to her husband she becomes subservient to him. Sadly, I have seen that kind of teaching where this verse is used and families have been destroyed. Husbands have taken this passage and used it to beat down their wives and that isn’t what Paul is saying in this passage.

Mathew Henry’s Commentary has this to say;

We must never separate the privileges and duties of the gospel. Submission is the duty of wives. But it is submission, not to a severe lord or stern tyrant, but to her own husband, who is engaged to affectionate duty. And husbands must love their wives with tender and faithful affection.

Don’t assume with your spouse. Don’t say something with the understanding that it is implied. It doesn’t take but a mere second to use courtesy. I had a problem with always volunteering my husband to do things for other people. I just assumed that he wouldn’t mind. For the most part, he didn’t mind but he would appreciate a heads up on occasion. Now, I don’t tell people my husband will do anything without checking with him first and allowing him to decide if it is something he can fit in to an all ready busy schedule. This may not seem like much but I was always volunteering him because I was proud of his skills and his abilities. He is fine with that….but I wasn’t being courteous or was overtaxing my husbands time.