(chief encouragement officer) of your family and your wife’s number-one cheerleader. Notice that Paul writes that these encouraging words should be “as fits the occasion” (Eph. 4:29). Another translation says, “according to the need of the moment” (NASB). This obviously requires that you know what is happening in your wife’s life, that you are paying attention to the times when she might need a special word of encouragement or appreciation. Unfortunately, we men are so absorbed in our own lives and