Thursday October 16, 2008 - His Priorities
Good chapter today. This chapter has shown me that if I want to be at the top of the list of priorities to DH, then he needs to be at the top of my list as well. DH goes above and beyond help at home since we both work outside the home. Many days he gets home before me and will have cleaned up a room in the house, put away laundry, etc.
"Men have many different ideas about what their priorities should be. But every wife feels she should be at the top of her husband's list - right there under God. I've found, however, that if a wife wants her husband's priorities to be in that kind of order, she has to make sure hers are in that order as well. In other words, if you want our husband to place you as a priority over work, children, friends and activities, you need to do the same for him. If God and spouse aren't clearly top priorities in your life, your husband will have less incentive to make them so in his."
"I know very well about the struggle to keep a right order of priorities, especially if there are little ones in the picture. Children's needs are immediate and urgent and you're the one to take care of them. A husband, after all, is an adult and hopefully can take care of himself. Even if there are no children, it's possible to be consumed by work, home, friends, projects, interestes, and activities. It's hard, in the midst of everything that occupies your time and attention, not to allow your husband to fall down on the list or at least feel as thogh he has."
Today I pray that You Lord would show me more ways to express to my husband that he is a top priority in my life. Help me to remember small things that make him feel important to me and know that I think of him. Help me not to be too busy to express how important he is to me. Teach us both Lord to put You first above all others and all other things.
I say go for it. I would start it, but I realise in this political atmosphere/season - I might be too polarizing a poster. 
