Maria Johnson actively makes her home a safe place for her husband.

The Lord put on my heart 10 years ago was to make him sorry he had to leave in the morning

and glad to come home. I want to greet him with a smile, and for him a glass of ice tea.

That's his preference. But I want him to be so glad to come home that it's a refuge.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss for Wednesday, January 30th.

Nancy Lee DeMoss has been teaching a very helpful series called A Vision for Biblical Womanhood.

We've heard about the freedom, joy, and peace that comes from embracing our God-given roles as women.

Some friends have been listening along with us and are about to help us see how these principles get lived out in the real world.

To start, here's Maria Johnson, responding to Nancy's teaching.

You read a quote recently by Peggy Noonan stating that she was a strong woman in the early 70s.

She was a feminist. A man had

attempted to assist her, and she let him know in no uncertain terms, she was capable of doing it

herself. I have actually done that. Now, my poor husband lived with that type of woman until about

10 years ago and we're coming up on 38 years. And the difference

in our relationship and his response in the whole marriage from the first 28 years to the last 10

has been so amazing. And I see in Genesis 2 where God made man first and gave him that instruction to care

for the garden. And then later he created the woman and she was to be a helper, a completer for him.

And my interpretation of that is to make him the best he can be, to be the person that cheers him on, believes in him

more than he believes in himself. And once the Lord began correcting my thinking about 10 years

ago about this, my husband began to change. And just to fast forward to an example, just a couple

of weeks ago, there was a simple little thing i had done

at home just privately at home that made him look good in the gates and i didn't even realize it but he

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