"The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom, and before honor is humility." Proverbs 15:33
Sometimes, I am right. (It can happen!) But, even when I am right, I have to bite my tongue because sometimes it's not up to me to correct The Husband. Sometimes I believe that God knows better how to guide The Husband.
And those times when I am right, I need to remember that whole humility thing. One time, The Husband and I had a disagreement and he asked me to come sit down and talk to him. I was stubborn in my right-ness and wouldn't sit down. I tried to go around him to leave the room, and I wouldn't look at him.
I was a 30-something-year-old woman acting like a 3-year-old, basically.
Finally, he convinced me to sit down and look at him.
And he apologized.
And I felt about this big.
In all honesty, The Husband isn't often wrong. But when he sees that he is, he can admit it. We have come a LONG way in communicating with each other, in seeing how sometimes we just misunderstood what the other was saying rather than letting a small misunderstanding turn into a major battle. We have also learned how to just let things go -- because sometimes being right isn't all that matters.
My Husband, thank you for being willing to learn from and submit to instruction from God. I have seen that so often in the big things, like your decision-making, and in the smaller details, like the times that we've had disagreements. Believe it or not, I am also actually thankful for how often you are right -- as much as I sometimes dislike having to admit it, how well you know me is a good thing. And knowing that you are willing to learn from and submit to God helps me to submit to you.
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1 comment:
Oh, I'm right sometimes and the husband won't ADMIT it. That's the problem here...he will continue to do wrong stuff just because he doesn't want to admit I'm right. And SOMETIMES, not usually, but sometimes I yell it from the rooftops. Which doesn't help. lol
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