Day 97 6-27

For my quiet time today I am reading and focusing on the book Love and Respect by Eggerichs to help me understand my husband better and how to be the wife God intended me to be. 

Had a few points that really struck a cord with me, aha moments if you will...

- "Often, we focus on our own needs and simply overlook the needs of the other person. The wife needs love; she is not trying to be disrespectful. the husband needs respect; he is not trying to be unloving"

It's so easy to get caught in this without realizing it. We both have good intention and love each deeply and would never want to intentionally hurt one another.

- Also, there was a statement about why there is no command for the wife to "agape love" her husband? I thought it was eye opening when the author recognizes that God didn't need to command that here (Eph 5:33) because it's in her human nature to love already. He created us women to do that in the first place - to be more sensitive, nurturing, compassionate, etc. 

- I also thought it was clever the way the author talked about men and women seeing and hearing the world through different colored lenses and hearing aids, men blue and women pink and that we have to try and put ourselves in their shoes when communicating with them. We are made different and have to stop fighting it and embrace it.