Lydia's book review

Lydia has recently posted the final part of her book review of Getting Serious about Getting Married. You can read it here. Thank you, Lydia, for working so hard to explain these important ideas! You will find all five of Lydia's points about the single years helpful. Here are the first two:

1) Pray fervently and without ceasing. Pray for all aspects of your marriage. To whom it will be, the timing of the relationship, the details, your parents involvement, his parents' blessing, etc.

2) Prepare yourself. Think about everything required to be a wife and mother. Work at these with all your heart. Discuss with your parents the areas you need to improve and how to get there.

Visit her blog to read her other excellent thoughts, and to find other blog posts on this topic. As I anticipate becoming a wife in just three weeks, I especially encourage you to consider point 2. When you are as close to marriage as I am, the idea of being a wife (and potentially nine months after that, a mother) begins to feel very daunting! It is very important to work hard to be prepared, and I wish that I'd begun earlier in devoting myself to this. Young ladies, it is never too soon to start getting ready to be the wife and mother God wants you to be! I believe that marriage and motherhood is God's plan for nearly all of his daughters. Even if you are one of the rare cases where he has planned an entire life of singleness, the skills you learn in preparing to be a wife and mother will serve you well in other areas of life.