The Generous Wife

I’d like to thank The Generous Wife community for 21 years of encouragement, prayer, and support. What a lovely time of sharing ideas and generally supporting each other as we learned to be more generous and build greater intimacy in our marriages.

I’m still blogging, but now I’m working on a greater focus on doing those things that will grow your marriage. It’s the doing that makes the difference!

Please join me over on Doing Marriage Well.

Well, that’s the first week from my new blog Doing Marriage Well. I hope you will join me there and continue to receive daily encouragements in your Inbox.

Doing Marriage Well

Again, thank y’all for being such a lovely supportive community over the years. May your holidays and new year be bright with promise of a growing happy marriage.

Lori <><

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I honestly need more than a week to play with kindness. 🙂 It’s the work of a lifetime, but taking a week to explore what kindness might look like and what I’m actually doing has been helpful. Sometimes I “think” I’m doing something, but when I make the time to consider it, I can see more clearly what I’m “actually doing.”

I would very much like for my husband to feel like this on a daily basis.

How about you? Did you learn something? How has this adventure into kindness affected your marriage?

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If you want to spend more time on developing kindness in your life, one of the best resources I know of is The Kindness Challenge: 30 Days to Improve Any Relationship by Shaunti Feldhahn. It’s a book that walks you through a thirty day challenge to grow in kindness. She also has a site where you can sign up for daily emails with additional resources and helps.

The 30-Day Kindness Challenge

And, if you haven’t already, take a bit of time to see what the Word says about kindness. Maybe write a few scriptures out on 3×5 cards and tape them to your bathroom mirror. Or you could also set scripture reminders on your phone.

Here are a few scriptures to start with.

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. Ephesians 4:32 ESV

Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, Colossians 3:12 ESV

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Galatians 5:22 ESV

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Take some time today to review your week so far.

What worked? What didn’t? What did you learn about yourself? Your spouse?

With that in mind, what would you like to try today? Experiment 2.0.

Is there something you did that needs a minor change? Is there something totally new you’d like to try? Do you need to have a talk with your spouse about what kindness looks like?

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