created to be his help mate

My last post I shared with you that I have just left my job as a preschool teacher, and I now find myself at home working as an artist for people who request custom canvas art pieces. As I previously shared, this time of unemployment kinda freaked me out because, though I knew we'd be okay, I wasn't comfortable completely trusting in the Lord and my husband, Brett, to provide for me. The Lord is so cool with how He answers concerns so quickly sometimes. Within the first week of me not working, I was asked to paint for four different clients... how cool is that! I am so blessed and thankful for the work and I am fully convinced that God hears our concerns of our hearts and meets them.

Now with a little more time on my hands, I have been excited to spend more time in the Word and talking to the Lord about how I can be the biggest help and blessing to my husband in this time where I am not working, and yet he is working so much. I am thankful for this "resting" time where I get to be a bit "self-focused", and I get to ask the Lord to weed out things that are not so pleasing to Him. It is kind of a "refining" period.

One thing that I have been asking the Lord about is how He can make me be a better helper or "help mate" for my husband. It says in Genesis 2:18, "Then the Lord God said, 'It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him." 


Being married, I now have a transformed view on what I am called to do in ministry. Since about age 13, I knew that the Lord had called me into His ministry, but I never fully knew what that would look like. After meeting Brett, we both knew that we would one day be involved in ministry of some sort, but we kind of kept our ministry visions separate from each other's. Now that I am married, my vision has switched its focus from my own selfish dreams and goals, to focus on the true ministry the Lord has currently placed me in... ministry as a help mate. 


I am really at the beginning of this quest to becoming the help mate my husband deserves, but I pray that the Lord would continue to do His work in me daily, so that I can minister to Brett as his wife and helper. 

This is one of the ways I have learned to help my husband... through FOOD! 

Delicious Chicken Enchiladas

1 1/2 lbs. chicken breast 

(4-oz.) shredded cheddar cheese

1 (8-oz.) cream cheese

1 (4-oz.) can chopped green chiles

8 flour tortillas

1 can green enchilada sauce

Cook chicken in boiling water with seasoning (we used cayenne pepper) until done. Mix cream cheese and chiles in skillet on low. Add chicken, mix well. Soften tortillas in chicken broth. Fill each with chicken mixture. Roll up and put in casserole dish. Pour enchilada sauce over enchiladas and sprinkle with cheese. Bake at 375 degrees for 30 minutes. ENJOY!