Wednesday, 24 August 2011
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Secrets of a Newlywed: What Can You Do for Him?
By Carmen
On my blog, I've been running a series called Secrets of a Newlywed, where I open up and share some of the lessons, insights and understandings—the little secrets—that have made my marriage the wedded bliss that it is. Like anything else, they are easier said than done. But I know from personal experience that when I do manage to live them out, I've seen what beautiful fruit they bear in my relationship with my husband. So, today, I share another with you: What Can You Do For Him?As God’s followers, we are called to be servants. Through the prophet Isaiah, God says, “Pay attention, O Israel, for you are my servant.” In the New Testament, Jesus washes his disciples feet, commanding us to serve one another and that the last shall be first.
Whether married or not, we should be looking for ways to serve others and making efforts to do so. But within marriage, those opportunities especially abound, and we should make it a habit to look for ways to help our husbands.
For instance, when my husband had some paperwork to fill out for his new job, he asked me to call the human resources department and find out what he needed to send them. The woman told me that he needed to write her a letter stating such-and-such and to fax it to her. I made a note of everything he needed to include, but then I figured, why not go ahead and type up the letter for him?
It was pretty straight forward and I had all the information, so I went ahead and wrote it. Then, when he got home, all he had to do was sign it. It only saved him about five minutes, but it’s about more than just saving him time or effort.
Cultivating this practice not only communicates—in real, tangible ways—to our husbands how much they mean to us but also fosters within us more gracious, selfless hearts. I don’t know about you, but I can use all the help I can get in that area!
Even if they are the smallest details that I take upon myself and even if my husband doesn’t even notice that I’m doing them for him, it still is a way for me practice learning to think of others before myself and learning to turn words into actions, let love speak loudly, live out my faith in the routine of day-to-day life.
It starts with asking myself, “What can I do for him?”
(To read through all the posts in this series, click here.)
Are you a newlywed? Do you have any secrets of being a newlywed?
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Comments (3)
Does it go the other way around too? Like, would he say the same thing?...
I definitely agree with you that the best relationships are those in which the partners do things for each other. I love to do small things (and big ones) for my husband, and he returns the favors, but... this particular example seems a little too much like Mommy doing math homework for Junior because he's busy with baseball to me. I'm an HR assistant, and I don't think I'd be overly impressed with a dude whose wife had to call for him to get information about employment paperwork. That would make me wonder what, exactly, he could handle. There might be specific qualifiers in this case that I don't know about, but in general circumstances, that's what I'd think.
@WaitingToShrug@xanga - i agree with ur whole comment.