Blessing Family and Honoring Husband

By Contributing Writer, Kim Doebler

Yesterday I baked bread. Really good for you, yet yummy in the tummy honey wheat bread. I started early in the morning so it would be ready for lunch. Oh how the whole house smelled of its goodness. Today it was homemade crescents. They are not nearly as good for us, but still yummy in the tummy. Why am I carrying on about baking bread? I have to! It is not a common occurrence at our house, and I want all of you to know what a good mom I am. We all know that good moms bake bread from scratch and really good moms even grind their own wheat berries.

OK, so I am speaking tongue in cheek, yet I hope we realize that sometimes we get a little tweaked about what makes a really good mom. Perhaps bread baking can be a blessing to your family like it was to mine yesterday. We didn’t have time to grocery shop since being out of town, so with low supplies the bread was very appreciated. One test for any task would be to ask if it is a blessing to our family. I didn’t have to shoo anyone away yesterday so I could knead my dough in peace. Actually, I worked the dough while going through my daughter’s math with her. Does our family enjoy, like and want done what seems so important to us?

Secondly, we can ask ourselves if what we are doing is honoring our husband. Here comes some boat rocking…..if our husband likes store bought white bread wouldn’t it be more honoring to buy him his favorite bread than to continually feed him what he “needs”?  I hear a lot of moms out there saying they honor their husband by getting him what he wants while feeding the rest of the family what is good for them. Fine, IF this was the husband’s idea. I may be all wet here, but if we tell our children the bread they are eating is healthy, but the bread Daddy is eating is “bad for you”, then aren’t we calling Daddy a dummy?

Bottom line: a good mom blesses her family and honors her husband. All those other things we think make us great…don’t matter at all if they don’t bless and honor.

A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones. Proverbs 12:4