Marriage Moment: Taking the Words Right Out of His Mouth

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It’s My Marriage Moment again. I like to take a moment to encourage the institution of Marriage the way that God intended it. Marriage is a truly wonderful blessing and I hope that many more people will grow to find it as precious as I do.

Tonight, finally, the air cooled off. Beloved loves to sit on the back porch in the late evening and just relax but lately it’s been too hot. Tonight however he went out. I followed closely behind craving that time alone with my spouse. I wanted to reconnect and have just a few minutes to talk. You do remember that before kids you used to talk to your spouse right?

So I went out and we have a double rocker so we sat together. I started talking. At some point I asked him a question like “Don’t you want to talk?”

He kind of chuckled and said. “You have just talked about 13 different subjects in about 2 1/2 minutes.”

I started laughing. Isn’t that typical of how women talk? I mean if I had been talking to one of my good girlfriends, she would have totally been involved in each of those subjects and we would have had good give and take about each of them. Men, however do not talk in this fashion.

I said, “Am I ruining your quiet time?”

He said, “I didn’t say that.”

I asked, “In general, do guys need quiet time.”

He replied, “Sometimes.”

I asked, “Is this one of those times?”

He answered, “I would never stop you from talking to me.”

Again, I just wanted to talk, so I kept talking. Somewhere along the way I asked another question, answered it for him and then he laughed. Really laughed, then said, “You took the words right out of my mouth.”

So I’ve been thinking. How often do I do that? I mean, I want to talk to him and I know that at times I get frustrated because I don’t feel like he talks enough. But, perhaps I try to talk for him. I forget to just be still and listen to him. I forget that men are different than women and it doesn’t mean he doesn’t want to talk but just that his way of talking is different than mine.

We do that with God too.

The Psalmist wrote Psalm 46:10 “Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”

There is a reason why God put that in His Word. We often go to Him in prayer and ramble on with all our wants, needs, desires, we cast our cares upon Him, we nag and complain and when we remember we offer thanksgiving and praise. But when do we just go to Him and BE STILL?

Dear ladies, the same is true of our husbands. In the busy-ness of our lives we often forget to just sit on the porch in the double rocker or swing, hold hands, stare up at the stars together in silence and just be still, together.

Give it a try. You might be surprised at the comfort you shall recieve.

Would you like to join me by adding your own Marriage Moment?