When our minds are fixed on praise, the glass becomes half full. Hope becomes stronger. Irritations fade. No matter the season or circumstance we are currently in, we have so much to praise God for because He is always good and there is always a reflection of God in our husbands.

Usually we regard with wonder things so great that we can’t comprehend or replicate them. We regard with pleasure things that bring us joy. And we regard with approval things we value. If you combine greatness, joy, and value, your result is something excellent or first-rate. Admiration is merely an organic response to that excellence. Why, then, is it so hard to admire our husbands? If they weren’t excellent men, then we would not have chosen to spend forever with them. Why the discrepancy?