"I seem to fail in charity, humility, and obedience. Pride is not being burned out of me. When I succeed in obeying the Rule, I fail at the same time because I have pride in succeeding." (Sister Luke, "The Nun's Story)
My soul echos the same words as Sr. Luke. I believe, affirm, and promote complete obedience to my Husband and to other rightful authorities God has seen fit to place in my life. Yet, time and time again, I fail.
I still lack the proper spirit of submission towards my Husband. I like the idea of submitting, I ardently promote it for other wives, but when it comes down to really, truly, living it out in a way which reflects pure intention in my soul, I find myself falling short. Although I desire with all of my heart and soul to be a truly humble, obedient, and submissive wife and woman, I put too much thought into the idea of these things, and not enough energy into actually *doing* them.
The sins of disobedience and negligence towards those whom God has seen fit to place in authority over me need to be rooted out. I am constantly forgetting to complete commands, or I fail to do them correctly. Sometimes I fail to give these commands priority because a million and one other projects and responsibilities are vying for my attention, and the commands--which should rightfully take precedence-- end up being allocated to the "back burner." Other times, I do truly forget. Nevertheless, negligence for any reason is deplorable.
I need to focus on completing the tasks at hand with as much fever and attention to detail as is possible. I must live as if perfect obedience were my soul's greatest delight, because it should be. The commands given to me are given by rightful authority, and as such, are given by God to be the greatest aids to my soul on its way to Heaven. I ought to love them, cherish them, and venerate them as I would the greatest treasure on earth, for truly, they are more precious and more efficacious than any earthly gain. God's Holy Will, not mine, must take precedence. He must increase and I must decrease.
Now that I am fully mindful of thus, it's time to actually do it. As a priest once said, "There is no 'try.' There is only 'do.'"
Please pray for me, that I might be given the grace and fortitude to become the submissive, proper woman and wife that God Almighty desires for me to be. I can do nothing apart from His love and life within me.
"Lord, teach me my place as a woman." And, as a wife.
Amen.
8 Comments
TraditionalHusband
21/4/2009 11:54:02 am
What a lovely post, my dear sweet wife.
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Dear Traditional Wife,
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ginna
25/4/2009 02:10:25 pm
Hi there it is refreshing to see another Catholic couple doing DD:) I am happily married to my husband for 13 years we have 3 wonderful children so far. I have felt the need to be a traditonal wife since the begining of our marriage we also are very devout and we homeschool. I have had 2 surgeries in the last year and we have gotten out of the DD aspects to some extent mainly because of my health. I have grown defiant of his autority because of lack of correction. Do you both have any suggestions about how we could get this back? Please feel free to email me. Thanks and blessings.
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26/4/2009 02:24:50 pm
Cory,
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Hello Traditional Wife,
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28/4/2009 11:27:48 am
Ginna,
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Silvia
30/4/2009 10:06:39 am
I'm sorry to hear about the bad post, I never saw them but I know people can be mean sometimes. I think it's very sweet that your husband is so protective of you.
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Traditional Wife
30/4/2009 10:21:11 am
Thanks, sweetie! One of us always managed to delete the comment rather quickly-- they were always so vile and degrading...the person had a serious bone to pick with MrLDD and *should* take up their argument with him-- but thankfully Weebly now allows for moderated posts. ;-)
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