30 Day True Woman Make-Over: Day 7

Day 7
Measured Words

You can spend days cultivating a close relationship with someone, but it can all be destroyed by a few sinful words.

• Is it not sad that we are so much more careful about the words we say inside our homes?
• So often, we just say whatever we think, especially when we are with people we know really well. We just let down our hair, and we are not so conscious about what we are saying.
• If you humble yourself every time you sin with your mouth, you will start to sin less frequently with your mouth. Stop and edit your before you speak. (That may just mean saying less.)
  

30 Day True Woman Make-Over: Day 6

Day 4
Working Joyfully

If you are a mom, it probably seems like your work is never done, but there is a way to make the work lighter. If you tackle your projects out of a sense of love, you will experience new energy and motivation.

• The Proverbs 31 woman has a heart of virtue and excellence; a godly strength and character that is lived out in the context of her home.
• This woman is not only a hard worker; she is cheerful about her work.
• This woman has a different attitude about work because she sees the purpose, meaning, and motivation behind that work. It is love--love for others and love for God. Her love for God makes her willing to work with her hands in providing food, clothing, and cleanup around her house.
  

30 Day True Woman Make-Over: Day 5

Day 5
A Godly Woman's Work

Do you realize that the work you do today is important to God? Learn how you can glorify God in the way you work, and in where you work.

• It is a privilege and a high calling to tend to the practical, physical affairs of your home.
• Your good works ought first to be done at home, ministering to the needs of your family. Then as God gives you time, opportunity, available resources--or in a different season of life--take those gifts and abilities and expand them.
• As you handle the practical details related to the care of your family, there is profit. Work is good!
  

p.s. I could not post this Saturday because we had a Jr. High and HS football game in Dayton, OH, so we were gone all day.

30 Day True Woman Make-Over: Day 4

Day 4
Committed to Marriage

Marriage is a covenant. Learn more about this life-long commitment.

• A wife has a permanent, unconditional commitment to act in a way that is according to her husband's best interests--not to serve herself, but to serve her husband.
• A husband can trust a godly wife to speak well of him and to keep confidences. He can trust her in the way she speaks about him. He can trust her to protect his reputation.
• A godly wife inspires a man to be worthy of her devotion. He rises to that because he knows he has a woman who is an asset, not a liability--a woman who supports, encourages, and helps him in every way possible.
  

30 Day True Woman Make-Over: Day 3

Day 3
Modeling Humility

Does being a true woman mean you are perfect? Hardly! A true woman is simply different from most, but it is those differences that are the secret of her great influence.

• It is more important that you model humility than that you model perfection.
• As you allow yourself to be made and molded into the image of God's kind of woman, you will function at peace and at rest-not without problems-but with joy.
• Do you want your husband to be a man of virtue, a noble man, a man of spiritual strength and character? Then set out not to change him, but to be the kind of woman with the kind of character that you want him to have.
  

30 Day True Woman Make-Over: Day 2

On September 24 & 25 my mom and I attended the True Woman Conference by Nancy Leigh DeMoss. It started on the 23, but we were not able to attend that night because of Andrew's football game against the Indiana Deaf School.

I enjoyed it very much! I went to Nancy's breakout session on Daily Devotions: Duty or Delight. It was so encouraging. She gave everyone a 30 day challenge to have devotions every day for the next 30 days. I have taken that challenge twice and have failed twice. But I started again on Monday and by the grace of God I will finish the 30 day challenge and continue to have daily devotions after the 30 days.

I have started receiving e-mails for the 30 Day True Woman Make-Over. I will be posting the e-mails here as I receive them.

The first day was just a review of what we learned that weekend and to encourage us to continue on the paths of becoming God's true woman.



Day 2
A Virtuous Woman

When you here the phrase "A godly woman," does an actual woman come to mind? Better yet, do you think that could ever describe you?

• The Proverbs 31 woman deals with the same stuff you do!
• I can tell you this-she did not get there overnight, and she has not arrived yet. She is a woman in progress. She is a woman who, like most of us, often finds herself taking three steps forward and two steps back.
• The world tells you that if you look out for yourself, then you will be happy. But it is the woman who lives for God and others who is truly joyful.

Listen to or read more here.

Wallace Family Reunion

On Saturday we had our Wallace family reunion in Illinois. I had not seen this side of the family for quite some time and most of them I had never met before.

My Grandma and Grandpa Wallace had come up from Kentucky on Thursday. My Aunt Lynn (my Dad's older sister) flew in from Florida on Friday. They all stayed at our house.



Saturday morning we drove into Illinois for the reunion. My Aunt Missy (my Dad's younger sister) Came down from Chicago.


I was pleasantly surprised that I actually enjoyed the reunion. We got to catch up with people that we already knew and I got to meet new family members. We had a good time and a lot of laughs.

There were a few people who had brithdays in October, my Aunt Lynn included. Her birthday was actually on Saturday. She turned 53.

My grandpa is on the far left. His older sister, Dorothy, is sitting in the chair. The rest are cousins.

Grandma is now standing with grandpa. Dad is on the far left with Aunt Lynn sitting below him in the orange shirt, and Aunt Missy is to her right.














After pictures, we had to rush to Heritage Christian for Andrew's game against Dayton Falcons.