I am ashamed of myself, of late, that these subjects of love and matrimony find a place in my thoughts which I never have been in the habit of giving them, but people here talk of little else and I am borne on with the current. I think that to give happiness in married life a woman should possess oceans of self-sacrificing love and I, for one, haven't half of that self-forgetting spirit which I think essential. ~ excerpt from letter to Anna S. Prentiss, April 24, 1843[ How many of us would attest to a lack in this area? A need for prayer, yes?]
Thanks for choosing this piece from one of her letters, Maxine. This is a daily challenge for me and, as you said, a need for prayer to grow in that kind of self-sacrificing love that is spoken of in Philippians 2. Oh to be able to serve our husbands and families with this kind of a spirit!
ReplyDeleteNice to hear from you, Karen. This is certainly a need we all can identify with, and can only be accomplished with God's grace.
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