A Woman After God's Own Heart...

Okay, I know this has nothing to do with what I'm about to write about, but I had to show ya'll our dining room wall. I hadn't written in a while and my stepmother, Connie wrote and said that the "Great Wall" must have been taken up my time. I thought the letter was funny.
Back to business. Yesterday, I went bring something to David at work. He goes to work and evidently has been "bragging" about ALL the things that I do as a wife. The quotations are there because some are actually false, but funny. Yes, I do wake up and iron his clothes while he gets dressed. After, I make his lunch, then some form of breakfast, mostly on the go type stuff. Then he has a home cooked dinner waiting for him when he gets home. The lies...He leaves his dirty shoes at the door, and they are clean in the morning because I cleaned them. Ha. They asked me if we exchange cars for me to go change the oil, yes this is true, but playing along I fibbed and I added that I change the oil myself, why waste money. The women where flabbergasted. They thought he was exaggerating the truth this whole time. It's funny how they believe me. The looks in their eyes was funny, but at a second glance it almost looked as if they didn't feel like they were doing a great job as a wife, because I "do" so much more. I wanted to come clean, but we have to keep the charade going.
I was reading the book, A Woman After God's Own Heart, and there are a few chapters about the love of a wife toward her husband. To summarize, a wife who loves her husband is a wife who prays, plans, prepares, pleases, protects, physically loves, positively responds--and then prays some more. Doing this whole lists will communicate "I love you" more powerfully than words alone can.
Boy, talk about feeling inadequate. That really is an extreme word, but I can't think of a better word right now. Yes, I do fulfill a little in each category as do all of us probably. I almost feel like we have to be perfect in each category for our husband to feel the love that God wants him to feel. Which I hope that isn't totally true, because I can promise that I know that I will fall short each time. Hey, I'm only human.
Anyway, it's a great book, so many things speak out to me, I could probably highlight the whole book. Gotta love those kinds of books. Another one like that is, Five Love Languages. We read that book together before we got married. I tell helped out alot, we learned alot. It was one of those books that you literally can't put down. You could read it in several hours, and I promise you, I am anything but a fast reader.