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I strongly recommend a book called "Created to be His Help Meet" by Debi Pearl. People either love it or hate it, I think.
One thing I will say, if you come home from church and dh has no lunch for you - don't act mad. Don't say a word. Prepare the night before something that can be heated up quick or a cold lunch. But getting mad at him will not help win him to Christ. Let him be. He's your husband and you need to have respect for him.
I have had a hard time finding respect for my dh sometimes. But when I follow God's way - respect what He set up for us in His word - Ephesians 5:22-24 "Wives submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as the Lord is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also should wives submit to their husbands in everything."
Now, I know that's not always easy! It takes a lot of prayer and not getting your way when you want it and a lot of giving your frustrations to the Lord and asking Him to help you thru, but the rewards are incalculable. You feel peace inside for obeying the Lord and your family will be so much better served.

Maggie, Rapture Ready 41 Comments [7/19/2008 6:04:17 PM]
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Submitted By: The Lazy One
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#595284
aaa

Slavery for jebus?

7/19/2008 6:14:31 PM

#595285
Mayhem

Hmm... not too harsh. She just seems kinda whiny because he din't make lunch once. Her method of dealing with it is pure denial, though.

7/19/2008 6:15:44 PM

#595286
RBM11

Damn aaa you beat me to it. I also hate when they call them "dear husbands"

7/19/2008 6:15:56 PM

#595311
Joe-Bob

What's "dh"?

7/19/2008 6:27:30 PM

#595321
sakura

I have a hard time finding respect for you Rapture Ready nutjob at all. Period.

And what's up with all this submitting crap? You like taking it in the ass for jesus?

Freaks.

7/19/2008 6:36:53 PM

#595332
anonymous_troy

Huzzah! More sexism quotes!

*Make up your own S & M joke and throw it in here, I can't think of one right now*

7/19/2008 6:45:04 PM

#595333
anonymous_troy

@ Joe-Bob: "dear husband"

they use d* for close relatives. And children.

7/19/2008 6:45:37 PM

#595349
Brain_In_A_Jar

Is there any surer proof that you're dealing with an ignorant dunce whose opinions can be summarily and utterly disregarded than their misuse of the term "Help Meet"?

7/19/2008 6:53:35 PM

#595350
approximate

Doormats fer Jeebus!

7/19/2008 6:54:53 PM

#595355
Kinderklein

Bit off topic, but I wonder what kind of husbands Mr. Pearl chose for his daughters concidering his heavy screening methods and general "woe those who do not submit" attitude...

7/19/2008 6:56:30 PM

#595359
Kinderklein

@Brain_In_A_Jar
At least the words are separated, which could mean they know what they mean.

7/19/2008 6:59:13 PM

#595375
werewolf

Poor Maggie.

I do hope your kind (in the biblical context) is heading for well-deserved extinction.

7/19/2008 7:09:24 PM

#595381
Fishcakes

No, I'd rather not be an unpaid domestic servant for a lazy and dependent controlling jackass. I'd rather be on equal footing with someone who's pleasant to be around.

"Helpmeet" nothing. God helps those who help themselves.

7/19/2008 7:11:46 PM

#595405
Jud

It seems clear here that you're married to a manchild. An adult can handle more varied social situations than domination and submission. They can handle egalitarian relationships. Manchildren, however, see the world as bosses and bitches.

And you're just stupid enough to give him the boss position.

7/19/2008 7:28:07 PM

#595409
Old Viking

Maggie: In this context "meet" is an adjective, not a noun. It means ... ah, never mind.

7/19/2008 7:32:00 PM

#595441
Crazy Fundie

In one way, this woman is correct: It’s an exercise in futility, not to mention grossly insulting, for one partner to try and change the other. Spouses should pick up the slack for each other, according to their interests and abilities, as opposed to pecking at each other over minutia.

If the wife likes her lunch on-time, and the hubby doesn’t care, then let her make the lunch. If the husband wants his clothes folded a certain way, and the wife doesn’t care, then let him fold the clothes.

She’s also correct in that spouses should respect each other, never airing their dirty laundry in public, for example, and never sniping at each other in front of company.

Alas, poor Maggie thinks this is a one-way street; that she owes her husband respect and good manners, whereas he can ride for free. She might inspire him to treat her better, but it’s more likely she’ll inspire him to hate her for her lack of a spine.

7/19/2008 8:09:26 PM

#595447
John

"Wives submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as the Lord is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also should wives submit to their husbands in everything."

This is from the same guy, that judgmental, sexually dysfunction misogynist, Paul, who says (in 1 Corinthians 7:1): "Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: [It is] good for a man not to touch a woman." And later (1 Cor 7:7-9): "For I would that all men were even as I myself (i.e. lacking sex drive). But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that. I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn."

7/19/2008 8:16:29 PM

#595482
anevilmeme

For the nth time, Stockholm Syndrome.

7/19/2008 8:58:18 PM

#595511
Jay-Sus

What the Hell is a dh?

7/19/2008 9:35:50 PM

#595528
cool cats

Stepford wife for Jesus. YAY!

7/19/2008 10:03:30 PM

#595529
shriekback

Do you wear t-shirts with "welcome" printed across them?

7/19/2008 10:06:34 PM

#595556
pizzaro

It makes much more sense if you read "dh" as dickhead.

7/19/2008 10:28:38 PM

#595569
Allegory for Jesus

Jeez...it sounds like she doesn't care much for her husband at all, and needs to recite "Jesus wants me to bite my tongue" over and over again in order to get through the day. Sad....

7/19/2008 10:48:59 PM

#595585
tmr

Maggie, get a life.

7/19/2008 11:07:19 PM

#595623
Pyroclasm

"He only hits me because he loves me." award?

7/19/2008 11:31:37 PM
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