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Key Bible Verse: She gets up before dawn to prepare breakfast for her household and plan the day's work (Proverbs 31:15). Bonus Reading: Proverbs 31:10–31

If you're a husband, it's a good exercise from time to time to try and follow your wife's schedule for a day. If she works an outside job, you'll quickly realize that household chores don't just disappear because she's put in eight hours at an office. If she works primarily at home, you'll soon discover how many roles she's expected to play in just one day: banker, nutritionist, counselor, interior decorator, chauffeur, educator, and the list goes on and on.

Yet a wife's work often goes unnoticed or unrecognized. Ingratitude is wrong, if not sinful. So what are two ways to express true appreciation for all the work your wife does on behalf of your marriage and family?

1. Praise her for her resourcefulness. In any given day, wives solve numerous difficulties, problems, and crises. Ask what dilemmas she faced that day, then praise her for her ingenuity and resourcefulness in solving them.

2. Notice the small things. As you walk through the house, notice all that's orderly. Imagine the state of affairs if you had to manage everything. Thank her for the small things she does each day to make life so much better and easier for the two of you.

—Robert & Cheryl Moeller in Marriage Minutes

My Response: One thing I could praise or thank my wife for today is …

Thought to Apply: Accepting each other makes a stable marriage. Expressing appreciation for each other, however, makes a sensational marriage. —Brett Selby (writer)

Adapted from Marriage Minutes (Moody, 1998) by permission.

Prayer for the Week

Dear Father, because we live together every day, it's become easy to take for granted Your gift to me of a life's partner. Help me to suitably treasure her.

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