The Generous Wife https://www.the-generous-wife.com/ a daily reminder to grow your marriage Mon, 05 Dec 2022 19:37:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 124267772 Bless Y’all https://www.the-generous-wife.com/2022/12/11/bless-yall/ https://www.the-generous-wife.com/2022/12/11/bless-yall/#respond Sun, 11 Dec 2022 08:01:00 +0000 https://www.the-generous-wife.com/?p=74610 Well, that’s the first week from my new blog Doing Marriage Well. I hope you will join me there and continue to receive daily encouragements in your Inbox. Doing Marriage Well Again, thank y’all for being such a lovely supportive community over the years....

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]]> Well, that’s the first week from my new blog Doing Marriage Well. I hope you will join me there and continue to receive daily encouragements in your Inbox.

Doing Marriage Well

Again, thank y’all for being such a lovely supportive community over the years. May your holidays and new year be bright with promise of a growing happy marriage.

Lori <><

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]]> https://www.the-generous-wife.com/2022/12/11/bless-yall/feed/ 0 74610 Kindness Conclusions (7 of 7) https://www.the-generous-wife.com/2022/12/10/kindness-conclusions/ https://www.the-generous-wife.com/2022/12/10/kindness-conclusions/#respond Sat, 10 Dec 2022 08:01:00 +0000 https://www.the-generous-wife.com/?p=74607 I honestly need more than a week to play with kindness. 🙂 It’s the work of a lifetime, but taking a week to explore what kindness might look like and what I’m actually doing has been helpful. Sometimes I “think” I’m doing something, but when I...

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]]> I honestly need more than a week to play with kindness. 🙂 It’s the work of a lifetime, but taking a week to explore what kindness might look like and what I’m actually doing has been helpful. Sometimes I “think” I’m doing something, but when I make the time to consider it, I can see more clearly what I’m “actually doing.”

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I would very much like for my husband to feel like this on a daily basis.

How about you? Did you learn something? How has this adventure into kindness affected your marriage?

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]]> https://www.the-generous-wife.com/2022/12/10/kindness-conclusions/feed/ 0 74607 Kindness Resources (6 of 7) https://www.the-generous-wife.com/2022/12/09/kindness-resources/ https://www.the-generous-wife.com/2022/12/09/kindness-resources/#respond Fri, 09 Dec 2022 08:01:00 +0000 https://www.the-generous-wife.com/?p=74603 If you want to spend more time on developing kindness in your life, one of the best resources I know of is The Kindness Challenge: 30 Days to Improve Any Relationship by Shaunti Feldhahn. It’s a book that walks you through a thirty day challenge to...

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]]> If you want to spend more time on developing kindness in your life, one of the best resources I know of is The Kindness Challenge: 30 Days to Improve Any Relationship by Shaunti Feldhahn. It’s a book that walks you through a thirty day challenge to grow in kindness. She also has a site where you can sign up for daily emails with additional resources and helps.

The 30-Day Kindness Challenge

And, if you haven’t already, take a bit of time to see what the Word says about kindness. Maybe write a few scriptures out on 3×5 cards and tape them to your bathroom mirror. Or you could also set scripture reminders on your phone.

Here are a few scriptures to start with.

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. Ephesians 4:32 ESV

Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, Colossians 3:12 ESV

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Galatians 5:22 ESV

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]]> https://www.the-generous-wife.com/2022/12/09/kindness-resources/feed/ 0 74603 Doing Kindness, Take Two (5 of 7) https://www.the-generous-wife.com/2022/12/08/doing-kindness-take-two/ https://www.the-generous-wife.com/2022/12/08/doing-kindness-take-two/#respond Thu, 08 Dec 2022 08:01:00 +0000 https://www.the-generous-wife.com/?p=74600 Take some time today to review your week so far. What worked? What didn’t? What did you learn about yourself? Your spouse? With that in mind, what would you like to try today? Experiment 2.0. Is there something you did that needs a minor...

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]]> Take some time today to review your week so far.

What worked? What didn’t? What did you learn about yourself? Your spouse?

With that in mind, what would you like to try today? Experiment 2.0.

Is there something you did that needs a minor change? Is there something totally new you’d like to try? Do you need to have a talk with your spouse about what kindness looks like?

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]]> https://www.the-generous-wife.com/2022/12/08/doing-kindness-take-two/feed/ 0 74600 Roadblocks to Kindness (4 of 7) https://www.the-generous-wife.com/2022/12/07/roadblocks-to-kindness/ https://www.the-generous-wife.com/2022/12/07/roadblocks-to-kindness/#respond Wed, 07 Dec 2022 08:01:00 +0000 https://www.the-generous-wife.com/?p=74595 How did your kindness experiment go yesterday? What did you learn? Was there anything that made it more difficult to be kind? Early in my marriage when I started practicing generosity, I was fearful that I would do all this good stuff and wind...

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]]> How did your kindness experiment go yesterday? What did you learn?

Was there anything that made it more difficult to be kind?

Early in my marriage when I started practicing generosity, I was fearful that I would do all this good stuff and wind up exhausted and empty. Turns out, generosity is a dynamic of God’s kingdom and you can’t out-generous God. 🙂 The more I leaned into generosity, the more I experienced His goodness toward me.

Well, generosity and kindness are kissin’ cousins. So the same applies. 🙂 I just need to remind myself of that on occasion.

Chronic busyness is something I watch out for. I have to have a certain level of energy to be kind. I also tend to be rather focused, so I lose sight of people when I’m working. For me, this is about choosing a sane work level and having work hours.

And there are times when my kindness is based more on how my sweetie treats me (which is totally understandable and human), but I need to be kind because that’s the sort of person I want to be, my personal choice of behavior.

What kind of choices do you need to make to make kindness easier for you?

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