Being a good help meet starts long before marriage. It is a mindset, a learned habit, a way of life established as a young unmarried girl—or at least that’s the way it should be.
Nearly every wife will confess that the first year or two of married life was—how shall I say it—a frustrating learning experience. Most girls spend plenty of time planning for their wedding, but make no preparation for the weeks and years to follow. Many wives are provoked to bitterness during the first year and never get over it.
All this could so easily be avoided with simple instruction. It was with good reason God said let the aged women teach the younger. Trial and error is not the best teacher when it comes to marriage. It is much less painful to learn beforehand what God has to say about your role as a help meet to that special man God will bring into your life. It is the older women who have experienced the joys of a good marriage whom God has appointed to pass along his instructions. That is what I have done in this new book Preparing To Be A Help Meet.
Preparing To Be A Help Meet contains six sweet love stories written by wives sharing their experiences about how God taught them to be the help meets they are today. Three of the stories are from wives that have been married over 40 years. Three stories are by new brides who, before marriage, were trained to be the help meet God intended. All the love stories are beautiful, and will show you how wonderful it is to walk together in Gods light.
In addition to the six personal testimonies, this book is full of short stories from a wide range of cultural backgrounds. Funny tales, ideas of how to gain a good man’s attention, and even a tragic testimony all teach important lessons. You will meet Grabbers and Hidden Flowers, and discover how to avoid being either. The chapter on Antsy Babes will remind you why patience is so important. You will be warned as you read stories of how texting, emailing and other forms of cyberspace have destroyed many budding relationships and even marriages.
An important part of this book is instruction on preparing for your future by saving money, developing skills, gathering information on cooking, health, and many other topics. Girls will see how one wise young woman planned her wedding God’s way. Along the way the reader will learn what to pack in her Heavenly Hope Chest.
http://www.preparingtobeahelpmeet.com
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I love your teachings. They are real and they work. It's exactly what the Bible says. I'm feeling a little lonely because where I live, no one believes these essential truths. I live in a place where if you even suggest that women should serve their husbands, then you get socially spanked for it. And God forbid that I may suggest that my husband is the spiritual leader in our home. My husband and I get shamed constantly for having our children in the sanctuary with us. They are very obedient. The church thinks we're overbearing. The Jr. High leader is always drilling us. We've tried other churches and this is the Church that is the closest to our believes. My husband's work doesn't allow us to move away. Nor would I want to. We're tired of hoping from church to church. We've been with this church for 3 years. It's a great church, we've learned to love them no matter their believes. However, it's hard for our family to fellowship. In need of fellowship.
Hi Mary,
Yours is an all-too-common situation. You really need to come to a shindig! It's a gathering of many like-minded people for several days of fun, fellowship and learning. You can learn more about updoming shindigs here:
http://digashindig.com/
You can check out the info and pictures from past shindigs here:
https://nogreaterjoy.org/2016/05/18/yall-should-have-been-in-texas/
https://nogreaterjoy.org/2017/02/15/florida-shindig/