Recently I began to share something I composed some years ago to be part of a
document for a niece as she got married in June 2004. That document was created as a compilation of entries under the title:
THE TEN BEST... or
The Wisdom of the most important women in your life.
Each woman who submitted an entry chose her own subject matter. I promised to
post my entry on this blog.
This is the sixth of our top decisions in the list of:
The
Top Ten Decisions Guiding Our Married Life
By
Uncle John and Aunt Linda Worden
6.We will make all major decisions
together and seek to reach consensus. We will not proceed in any area on
anything unless both of us are at peace and in agreement. But if an
irreconcilable difference occurs on a matter needing an immediate decision,
Linda will submit to John’s leadership.
Ephesians
5: 21-23 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, submit to your husbands as to the
Lord. For the husband is the head of the
wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. This is not difficult
for us. Uncle John is a very loving
husband who gives me much support and freedom.
It is easy for me to be willing to submit to him - I almost never have
to. But there was one time when we faced
an issue with a difference of opinion.
We were moving to Texas. I really
wanted to buy a house and not move into a rent home. We looked for a house and decided to make an
offer to purchase. Our offer was turned
down and since our home in Wisconsin had not yet sold, we decided not to
counter offer but instead to rent a house.
The day before we drove away from Wisconsin, our realtor called to say
the seller of the home we’d made an offer on had decided they would accept our
offer after all. I was just sure this
was God’s will for us and I was so eager to buy instead of rent. John, however, did not have peace about the
decision and said he didn’t want to own two houses at a time. As hard as it was for me to do, I knew I
needed to submit to his will and move into a rent house. It took six months for our house to sell but
five years before we bought another home.
In looking back, it was definitely the right thing to do. I am so glad we didn’t buy the house we had
made an offer on. It needed work and it
would have been far too expensive for us if we had bought it. Interest rates were dropping and in five
years we had become acquainted with our city and remain very pleased with the
home we own now. We have absolutely no
regrets for having followed this decision throughout our lives. Having peace in decisions is a way to be
protected from mistakes.
We continue to practice this decision with a 46 year track record. We know each other pretty well. We do not face issues that can't be decided amicably. We are together on decisions and neither of us experiences frustrations over actions or ideas of the other. We are blessed.
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