Category: Disciplines of a Godly Woman

After reading Hughes’ chapter on contentment, and seeing the next chapter is about propriety, I am tempted to stop this series altogether. I literally had to remind myself why I set off to be serious about cultivating the disciplines of a gospel woman. It is not easy, nor is it fun to look at oneself…

From Valley of Vision If I should suffer need, and go unclothed, and be in poverty, make my heart prize thy love, know it, be constrained by it, though I be denied all blessing. It is thy mercy to afflict and try me with wants, for by these trials I see my sins, and desire…

Christian women ought to be the happiest, most satisfied women on the planet. So why aren’t we? We know we should be, but we aren’t. We try to be, but we can’t. We throw out the catalogues and turn off the t.v., and tell ourselves that Jesus is more than enough, but we just don’t…

Discontent is born out of longing. We all have longings and desires. The question I have to ask myself (and try to answer honestly) is, “Is this a godly longing or and ungodly one?” After all, we can long for things that God wants to give. He just doesn’t always answer in the way we…

Barbara Hughes believes that when a woman voices her discontent she is usually desiring change in one of four areas (or all four!). Reputation–desire other people to think that they are beautiful, intelligent, and successful.Marital status–desire to be married, desire to be married to someone else, desire to change something about their husbands.Money–desire for more,…