Biblical Marriage with Wifely Submission #5 Winter 06

[bamamom]

We are a group of mamas who support each other in Biblical Marriage principles, and believe that wifely submission is part of God's plan for marriage.

Here are links to the old threads..


#1
http://www.mothering.com/discussions...d.php?t=353207

#2
http://www.mothering.com/discussions...d.php?t=384473

#3
http://www.mothering.com/discussions...d.php?t=453169

#4
http://www.mothering.com/discussions...d.php?t=495219

[Kidzaplenty]

Subbing!

[lilyka]

[AngelBee]

[Arduinna]

winter already? fall just started 3 weeks ago

[SheBear]

Subscribing! Love to all you ladies! Please keep me in your prayers....I'm undergoing some testing for my thyroid. And please pray for Maggie, too....I'm at the end of my rope with her condition, and no closer to finding out if it's asthma, just allergies, a combination, or something totally different, and potentially more scary.

All I know is that she has had this horrendous cough for nearly a year now, and nothing seems to be helping. Last night she vomited twice from coughing so hard, and that was AFTER a breathing treatment. Her voice always sounds hoarse, and it is so hard to hear my sweet little 2 year-old girlie sounding like she has a pack-a-day habit!

Thankfully, her lungs sound clear right now. But that raises it's own set of mysteries and unanswered questions. I'm just so discouraged, and afraid that if we don't get some answers soon, there will be life-long damage.

The worst part is that dh seems oblivious. He doesn't seem to think it as big a deal as I think. He seems to think it's just a cough, a little cold (that's lasted for nearly a year???!) and I'm over reacting. I know he has stuff on his plate to deal with, but these are decisions that I can't make by myself, and he just keeps brushing it off. I keep wracking my brain for ways to appeal to him, and coming up short.

Coming up short. That's another issue....our medical ins. deductible is so high that any further testing is gonna really pinch us. I've already cancelled all but the basic blood test for myself, due to cost. I need to figure out what's going on with me, but I feel that her issue is more urgent. But oh, how it hurts to see those dollar signs and know that we simply can't afford the testing for her--and even if we could afford it, just the diagnostic stuff isn't going to help, so any sort of treatment would cost even more.

Last night I "slept" in the guest room, close to her, so I could monitor her coughing better, and so I'd know if she vomited again. She coughed her poor little heart out most the night, and ended each fit by just whimpering painfully for me to hold her.

It is seriously hurting my heart, and all I can do is pray that God will heal her, and lead us to the answer, and guide us to make wise decisions.

[bamamom]

Oh Sarah

We are dealing with it too. Our ds is having horrible immune issues and feeding problems..

our medical food for him is 700 to 800 a month. Its awful. And we have to pay out of pocket while we wait for the insurance to decide whether or not to cover it.

[AngelBee]

Originally Posted by Arduinna

winter already? fall just started 3 weeks ago

Feels like winter here....it is snowing!

[lilyka]

we have snow here too.

have any of you read Jesus of Suburbia. it makes me feel; like we are a bunch of revelutionary subversives. What die to ourselves?!! what server other? love those who persecute you?!! Submit wilingly even if it means loosing something. heaven forbid!!

My pastor preached an excellent sermon on what it means to be meek. power under control. Someone strong submitting to the athourity of someone else. Strength reigned in and focused. Only two people were described as meek. Moses and Jesus. both extremely powerful men who took on tyrants and nations and did it all without ever steping outside of the will of the athourity figure they willingly bowed to. Something to think about.

when i think about how much strength and force submission takes I don't understand how anyone can see it as being a door mat. it is about functioning powerfully in the place God has ordained for you. When a wife submits she is in a position of power. Its crazy to think about and all mixed up and backwards by way of the worldsd thinking but thats just how Jesus did everything. He turned everything upside down.

[afishwithabike]

Checking in everybody.

[bamamom]

uh oh mamas..

we made the wikipedia...:

check this out..


http://www.mothering.com/discussions...d.php?t=538083

and the second link is a summary of stuff on wikipedia...how did this get in there??


http://www.mothering.com/discussions...2&postcount=23

[afishwithabike]

Seems that there were some disgruntled members. People are allowed to edit the definitions. Have you even looked up the stuff on Jesus or God?

[afishwithabike]

Help me. Please check out my thread here

http://www.mothering.com/discussions...d.php?t=538208

I want Godly advice from you all on this one.

[bamamom]

I'm assuming you want it up?/

I really like it down, but its just not practical with little ones i understand..

have you thought about using two clips like i use, parting it down the middle all the way back, and then doing 2 buns? farther back on your head so you dont look like princess lea..

My hair is getting really long, and if I dont get it cut soon, I will have to start doing that, because it is so long its choking my clips! It doesnt slide out, but its getting so that it doesnt close much at all now...

[MamaHippo]

Hi all..thanks for starting a new thread!

Dh is almost finished with the police academy - he's had this going since August of 2005, between hiring process and now the Academy. This is his life's dream, so I am so happy for him. As far as finances go, its been tough and will get tougher before the traiuning period officially ends in May. But we're hanging by the skin of our teeth, thank the Lord!
i was fortuante enough to go on my church's Autumn Women's Retreat in the CO mountains last weekend, with my best friend on earth, Leslie. We spent a weekend with some lovely women, had a great speaker on Living with the Joy of Christ, ate too much great food, and even had a theological discussion with some great ladies in the hot tub. Fun, and so rewarding. LEslie and I had some great talks and great prayer time together and we went home feeling very renewed in both our faith and our friendship. I was given a church scholarship for the retreat due to our finances, and that was a HUGE blessing.

I need some prayers, if there are any prayer warriors among us..

This is a little off-topic, but my sister is expecting a baby girl in february. She just had a perinatal Ultrasound and they found the baby has a kidney condition, some degree of congenital heart defect and also her AFP test came back borderline for Down's Syndrome. She's only 22, and this is already her 3rd baby, and this was an unplanned pregnancy (her 2nd child was less than a year old when she got pg). She's not a believer, and she's having a very hard time. Her husband is a sheriff's deputy and works all the time. She needs lots of prayers.

2. I am feeling the 'empty womb' thing very strongly, but Dh is not ready to try for #2. He has said that he would be perfectly happy only having DS, but we agreed on one more baby (i wanted a bunch). Every woman around me seems to be getting pregnant, and its getting very hard not to feel jealousy and resentment. I am doing my best to not bug my Dh about having another baby before he's ready ( he said maybe next year sometime), but i'm really feeling like its time. I am on the Pill , and i'm having side effects that make me nauseous and dizzy a lot. My birth control options ar very limted (alergic to spermicide and latex, cant use IUD or Depo), so its either stay on the pill or nothing, basically. DH wont trust NFP (thats what sis was using when she got pg with #3). I need prayers to let my selfish desires go and to follow my husband's wishes. My Dh is also not a believer, so that makes it even harder.

Thanks a lot for your prayers, ladies.


Lisa

[afishwithabike]

MamaHippo hugs and prayers. I hope GOD uses you to reach your sister. Remind her that there are NO mistakes in this world and this child is a precious gift. As far as the "empty womb" If GOD wants it to happen it undeniably will. He has a way of getting through to these Men of ours in ways we can't. Blessings and prayers are yours tonight.

[liz217]

Subbing
Bible believing Mammas!! YAY!

[afishwithabike]

Hello Liz217.

[phathui5]

lilkya, Tell me more about the Jesus of Suburbia book.

[lilyka]

I am only on chapter four but so far it is amazing. it really focuses on who jesus was, what he came into when he hit the planet (a breief history of Herod and Augustus) and what it means to cnt the cost of following him. he blasts the church, he blasts people who say Jesus was all about love and forgiveness and other happy things. he really focused on counting the cost and what Christ and paul and the rest of the Bible has to say about the cost of being a true follower. It really hits home with a lot of what I have been wresteling with concerning grace and salvation and what does it mean to confess Jesus as Lord and are we as saved as we think we are . . .(you can read more in my blog about my rambling brain on this . . .pm me and I will give you the address if you want to read ).

So far it is kicking my butt. I like it. I thought it might be kinda namby pamby Jesus hearts and flowers stuff but it is tough stuff. You have to be a total package kind of follower. intresting.