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Can a modern wife be submissive to her husband? In her highly anticipated sequel to My So-Called Life as a Proverbs 31 Wife, author Sara Horn takes on one of the most widely debated subjects for a Christian wife--marital submission. What does biblical submission look like for wives today? And why is submission viewed as such a dirty word by so many women and men in our culture, including Christians? Can a happily married couple live out the biblical model of submission and be the better for it? Horn takes on a one-year experiment to seek answers to these questions and to explore what it means to be submissive as a wife and "helper" to her husband. The answers--and her discoveries--may surprise you. This unique, entertaining, and thought-provoking personal account will challenge women to throw out their preconceived notions of what a submissive wife looks like and seek fresh leading from God for their lives and marriages today.

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers, Inc.
Date de parution	01 août 2013
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736952842
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS EUGENE, OREGON
Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are from the Holman Christian Standard Bible , copyright 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. Holman Christian Standard Bible , Holman CSB , and HCSB are federally registered trademarks of Holman Bible Publishers.
Verses marked NIV are from The Holy Bible, New International Version , NIV . Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
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Cover design by Dugan Design Group, Bloomington, Minnesota
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The author is represented by the literary agency of Alive Communications, Inc., 7680 Goddard Street, Suite 200, Colorado Springs, CO 80920. www.alivecommunications.com .
This book contains some stories in which the author has changed people s names and some details of their situations in order to protect their privacy.
My So-Called Life as a Submissive Wife
Copyright 2013 by Sara Horn
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97402
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Horn, Sara, 1977-
My so-called life as a submissive wife / Sara Horn.
pages cm
ISBN 978-0-7369-5283-5 (pbk.)
ISBN 978-0-7369-5284-2 (eBook)
1. Wives-Religious life. 2. Submissiveness-Religious aspects-Christianity. 3. Horn, Sara, 1977- I. Title.
BV4528.15.H674 2013
248.8 435-dc23
2013002888
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To Cliff:
I am so grateful for the story God continues to write for us, and the journey He s put us on together.
Acknowledgments
Writing a personal narrative or a memoir like this is not just personal; it can also be very challenging because more often than not, other people s stories are included as well.
First, I want to say a big thank you to my husband, Cliff, for his willingness to take on another experiment with me and for the growth we ve seen in our marriage and the impact God has made on our relationships with Him as well as each other.
I also thank my in-laws, Ray and Nancy Horn, my mom Gail, and the rest of our extended family and friends for their patience and agreement to let me include them in our story.
Special thanks must go to my editor, Rod Morris, for his enduring patience and encouragement as we went through the editing process. It has been wonderful working on this second project with you, and I m looking forward to others in the future!
I also extend a grateful thank you to Larae Weikert, Barb Sherrill, and the entire Harvest House staff for all of your support. I truly feel like I am part of an exceptional, wonderful team, and I am so grateful.
A big thank you also to my agent, Andrea Heinecke, and Alive Communications. Thank you Andrea for accepting my panicked phone calls and always knowing what to say to help this crazy writer finally hit the send button!
To my incredible team of leaders and friends at Wives of Faith-thank you for your support!
To my readers, it is such a joy to walk this journey with you. I never take for granted the emails and contacts I receive from you, and when I hear that one of my books has encouraged you to grow in your relationship with God or to take steps to improve your marriage or your family, I immediately whisper a thankful prayer to God for giving me the opportunity. Thank you for letting me be real with you and thank you for being real with me.
Finally, I am so grateful to God for what he has done in my life. Through the hardships, the challenges, the blessings and the joys, you have shown me that the only thing that matters is you. Please continue to help me grow closer to you and stay discerning to your will .
Contents
Acknowledgments
Why I Don t Want You to Read This Book
Submission in Abusive Marriages
Who Wants to Be a Submissive Wife?
The Word No One Likes to Say
Living with the In-Laws
Where Does Submission Start?
Mamaw Moves In
Sex Before Breakfast
My First, Oh-So-Not-Submissive Mistake
A Lesson in Submission
Love His Way
Moving Parts
More Changes
The Really-Not-So-Submissive Fight
A Chain of Command
What Does Helping Look Like Anyway?
Who Does What?
Dr. Mom Meets Dr. Wife
Honor on the Wall
Fifty Shades of Distraction
Little Surprises
Who s Got the Authority?
Do Submissive Wives Stay Home?
Mutual Helping?
It s Getting Hot in Here
The Lizard
The Question
When the Right Words Come Through Our Husbands
When Kindness Is Returned
Hurricane
Removing the Governor
Where I m Supposed to Be
Is Being Kind to Our Husbands Brainwashing?
In Ministry Together
Do You Love Me Too?
When Husbands Don t Help
Finding My Happy Place
His Helper
Discussion Questions
About the Author
Also by Sara Horn
About the Publisher
Why I Don t Want You to Read This Book
T his book is not for everyone. Seriously.
No, please don t think, Oh, she s using reverse psychology on me , or She went to some author marketing class where the instructor and all of the wannabe writers sat around plotting and saying if we tell them not to buy, they re gonna want to buy!
Um, no.
I truly and honestly don t want you to read or buy this book if it s not for you.
I can think of at least two types of people who do not need to read this book. These include women who already feel like they have a strong grasp on what it means to be submissive to their husbands (awesome, congrats, very happy for you), and women who are looking for a clear, concise guide or handbook with steps, charts, and footnotes on what it means to be submissive to their husbands (awesome, congrats, and good luck with that).
If you fit in the former group, you will probably be bored to yawns when you read what I have to say and not enjoy it very much or feel like you get anything out of it. You will probably call me immature or naive or believe I have a lot more living I need to do. If you are in the latter group, you will probably be frustrated and not enjoy it very much and want your money back. You will probably say I m a terrible writer or teacher and I should never attempt to write anything else again. Noted.
So, either way, let me save you the time and the cash and give you permission to walk away now. Before you get upset with me and post a nasty review online saying you already know more about this topic than I do, or you were looking for a how-to guide and this was more of a story, maybe a nice story, maybe a slightly interesting story, but not what you were looking for, and not very helpful.
There. I ve already said it for you. Please find a book that will be a better fit and save us both some frustration.
I hope you re reading this online as a preview. But if you re not, if you re holding this book in your hands, just take it back, send it back, give it back. The only word of caution I offer is if someone else gave it to you as a gift-a friend, a sister, a mom-then maybe, just maybe, you might want to give it a chance. They could have a better idea than you do at this moment for why you should read it.
I stand by everything I just stated with one exception-if your husband is the gift-giver of this book. And you didn t ask for it. You haven t heard of it. This is the first time you re seeing it. And just because of the title, if you know nothing else about this book, or about me, and you re feeling a little annoyed at your spouse right now, maybe a little frustrated, quite likely wondering if you ve just been insulted or told something you don t want to hear, or aren t ready to hear If that s the case, then you definitely have my permission to do one very important thing with this book before you give it back.
Hit him with it.
Sorry it s not a hardcover. I recommend two hands.
If, however, you don t fit in these two categories, then please, by all means, keep reading. Because I d like to tell you why I wrote this in the first place.
I think how-to books are great. Books that fit the Christian living genre are also wonderful. They re inspiring and offer refreshing guidance, hopefully based on what Scripture says. I have written a couple of books in that category. I ve read many, many more that I ve loved and that helped me gain new perspective in areas where I needed it.
But I also believe in the power of story. And I think sometimes, for some people, seeing your own story in someone else s can be much more educational and inspirational and effective than reading someone else s words telling you if you do A and B, you will definitely see X. Because sometimes, when you dutifully follow A and B and you don t see X, or X shows up in a different way, at a different time or in blue instead of green, or with a lot more tears and frustration than what the original X-promoter said would happen, well you start feeling as confused as you probably do trying to read this last sentence.
I discovered some things about the power