Quotes from Linda Dillow

What do you communicate to your husband? One wife put it like this: I told God about his bad points, and I told him about his good points.

I knew God was displeased by my lack of forgiveness, but it was impossible to forget the words that were cemented in my heart. Betrayal hurts.

Her tomorrows belonged to God. She had given them to Him. And because all her tomorrows were nestled in God's strong arms, she was free to live today. One day at a time she could make the right choices and grow to possess the holy habit of contentment. Ella's focus was eternal, and her focus led to an internal contentment.

God wants each of us to praise Him for His workmanship in creating us.

When we love, we open ourselves to the possibility of hurt.

God wants us to focus on becoming like Christ, on shaping our character into His image.

Paul recognized that the source and strength of all Christian contentment is God Himself.

No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money" (Matthew 6:24).

Within the human heart things have taken over. God's gifts now take the place of God, and the whole course of nature is upset by the monstrous substitution."6 We have mixed up what we serve and what we use. Sadly, many serve things and use God; the Scriptures instruct us to do just the opposite.

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." (Matthew 6:19-21)

You can choose to be free of the love of money. You can be in control of your possessions rather than be controlled by what you have and what you want. It's a secret choice of the heart between God and you.

A quiet heart is content with what God gives.6

Listen to your heart. Listen to your words. Look at your actions. Are you teaching your children to be grateful for God's blessings?

The role of helpmate indicates not a status of inferiority but a functional difference. The Wife is in submission to her husband in the same way Christ is in submission to the Father. Yet Christ and the Father are equal and one! There cannot be two leaders. The purpose is functional teamwork that allows two people to complement each other each other, not compete with each other, in life.

God gave you the gift of passion so that you and your husband can experience intimate oneness. He also gave it to you so you could share exquisite pleasure.

Worry doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

Sometimes what is most important to us is not obvious and can be seen only by how we respond to our husbands in everyday life.

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

When Can A Wife Disobey? When a husband asks his wife to do something directly contrary to Scripture.

Trustworthy, industrious, faithful, charitable, strong, wise, cautious, compassionate, generous, kind ... that's the scriptural definition of a good wife - a creative counterpart. A creative counterpart is a woman, who, having chosen the vocation of wife and mother, decides to learn and grow in all of areas of this role and work as though she were aiming for the presidency of a corporation.

Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

Consider the work of God, for who is able to straighten what He has bent? In the day of prosperity be happy, but in the day of adversity consider — God has made the one as well as the other so that man may not discover anything that will be after him. (Ecclesiastes 7:13-14, NASB)

Today wife-abuse is a common occurrence and, sadly, is seen sometimes in Christian marriages. Submission does not mean allowing another person to batter us, whether it battering is physical, verbal or emotional.

We have been conditioned by today's advertising to respond instantly to the word housewife with the word drudgery. ... A creative Counterpart is more than just a helper. She is a woman who having chosen (or have found herself in) the vocation of wife and mother, decides to learn and grow in all the areas this role and to work as hard as if she were aiming for the presidency of corporation. Functioning as a professional in all areas of marriage is the essence of being a creative counterpart.