The Official Writing Challenge
BACK TO
CHALLENGE
MAIN
INSTRUCTIONS
how it works
submission rules
guidelines for
choosing a level
ENTRIES
submit your entry
read current entries
read past entries
challenge winners
Our Daily Devotional HERE
Place it on your site or
receive it daily by email.


TRUST JESUS TODAY

  • Share
  • how it works
  • Submit
Previous Challenge Entry (Level 3 - Advanced)
Topic: Husband and Wife (08/08/14)
I’m Yours, You’re Mine, We’re HIS


H
*****honesty, humor, heart, happy, harmony
U
*****understanding,
S
*****sweet, sound, solemn, steady, serene
B
*****beauty, banter, brave, best friend
A
*****anchor, advisor, ally
N
*****nice, nearby
D
*****delightful, devoted


A
*****amiable, artistic
N
*****needed, necessary
D
*****dedicated


W
*****willing, wanting, wishing, wondering
I
*****intimate, interested, innocent
F
*****fearless, focused, friend
E
*****eager, entrancing, earnest


W
*****welcome, warm, wonderful
I
*****interested, infused, inerrant
T
*****true, thoughtful, thankful
H
*****hopeful, helpful, heart filled


J
*****joyous, jubilant
E
*****ecstatic, ennobled, enabled
S
*****serene, Savior, sensational
U
*****understanding
S
*****safe, secure, settled
................................................................................

H
*****horrid, harrowing, harsh, hell-bent
U
*****useless, unfaithful, unreliable
S
*****shocking, shouter, shooter
B
*****bestial, brutal, blind, *bilious, bully
A
*****averse, antagonistic, asinine
N
*****numb, negative, nasty
D
*****dull, deserter, disrespectful


A
*****adamant, aggressive
N
*****nasty, naysayer
D
*****depressed, displaced, disgusting, distasteful


W
*****wretched, wandering, wrestler, wary
I
*****intimidating, incestuous, incensed, intolerable
F
*****faithless, faulting, fretting, failing
E
*****erroneous, evil, evasive, episodic
................................................................................

“I want to be known as a nice guy with a cruel streak.”

I found this quotation among my late first husband’s college essays.
I should have been forewarned.

I am expressing many mannerisms and emotions to show the maelstrom many of us are caught up in as hopeful newlyweds expecting each other to bring love and joy to their marriage tables.

This is very stark and graphic, without hope when we are without Jesus, the Christ.

Prove this yourselves. Take all the above descriptive adjectives and add to or subtract what you have experienced in your marriage/marriages.

With Jesus, we have so much more. Husbands love their wives as Christ loves His Church, wives love and respect their husbands.

Without Jesus we experience the torments of Hell. We have no security, no understanding, no genuine love to give to each other.

I am blessed by God to have my precious best friend as my husband. I am working on loving him more each day. The return investment of love and faithfulness is God-blessed.

Do you dare to compare?

A love song to my hubby:

Honeymooning

Remember the ranch,
the fresh open air?
We learned to pile slash,
once set it afire.
Laughing and singing
with nary a care.
So silly in love, we never felt tired.

We fished in the “gravel pit”, chasing the flies.
We lived in a trailer, with a sheepherder’s stove.
We played with tame horses
with wild rolling eyes.
We forgot the computer, the commute in the morn.

Stars studded on velvet,
desert dark sights -
night sounds of crickets
invading our dreams.
Love was our blanket to
warm up cold nights
as fat cows plodded past –
contented old queens

A smelly outhouse held
catalogues many
for reading and wiping
and holding our noses,
Far from the trailer
'specially when raining.
walking the cow path,
the memory echoes.

We sledded on an
old car hood made "new" -
engulfed in our snowsuits
laughing like fools.
The cows and the horses
would stare at us too,
watching the newcomers
break all the rules.

Fresh snow brought in
to heat water for baths
you painstakingly gathered, heated for me -
a wee bit of crawl in
was all that we had,
somehow it seemed like
what Heaven should be.

I could wash my hair,
And make angels in snow
And snuggle with you,
and enjoy being flirty.
I look back on our lives
started so long ago -

Praising GOD for HIS love
And yours, sweet Michael
For forty-one years . . .
The opinions expressed by authors may not necessarily reflect the opinion of FaithWriters.com.
Accept Jesus as Your Lord and Savior Right Now - CLICK HERE
JOIN US at FaithWriters for Free. Grow as a Writer and Spread the Gospel.
This article has been read 1041 times
Member Comments
Member
Date
Rachel Barrett
08/16/14
Nice! I found the unusual format quite refreshing and intriguing. And the fact that it was your own story made it all the more enchanting.
Danielle King 
08/16/14
As fat cows plodded past, contented old queens - love it!

This is different, unique and bang on topic. I'm not surprised to learn who the author is though. I wonder why? Ha! Great job!
Bea Edwards 
08/18/14
Loved the acoustics, one thing I thought might give it a bit more punch. The first grouping 'husband and wife with Jesus' perhaps the last grouping could have had the addition husband and wife sans Jesus or in hell. I don't know just a thought.
Your love song to your man was beautiful.
Hope you shared it with him!
Noel Mitaxa 
08/19/14
You've covered a lot of ground with honesty, joy and pain - without losing us along the way. Well done.
Terry Atchison
08/20/14
Unique and very loving.
C D Swanson 
08/20/14
Loved this! Beautiful, and inspiring. THanks for sharing.

And, I pray for many more years of bliss for the two of you.

God bless~