One of the most inportant things to learn on your Love Dare journey is that you should not just follow your heart. You should lead it. Don't let your feelings and emotions do the driving.
In your marriage relationship, you won't always feel like loving.
Left to ourselves, we'll always lean toward being disapproving of one another. But our days are too short to waste in bickering over petty things.
Instead it's time to lead your heart to once again delight in your mate. Enjoy your spouse. Take her hand and seek her companionship. Desire his conversations. Remember why you fell in love with her personality. Accept this person - quirks and all - and welcome them back into your heart.
Again, you get to choose what you treasure. If you're irritable, it's because you've choosen to be. If you can't function without a clean house, it's because you've decided no other way will do. If you pick at your mate more than you praise them, it's because you've allowed your heart to be selfish.
The Bible contains many love stories, non more blantant and provocative than all eight chapters of Song of Solomon.
It's time to remember why you once fell in love. To laugh again. To flirt again. To dream again. Delightfully.
Even if it's been a long time. Even if a whole lot has happened to change your perceptions.
TODAY'S DARE
PURPOSEFULL NEGLECT AN ACTIVITY YOU WOULD NORMALLY DO SO YOU CAN SPEND QUALITY TIME WITH YOUR SPOUSE. DO SOMETHING HE OR SHE WOULD LOVE TO DO OR A PROJECT THEY'D REALLY LIKE TO WORK ON. JUST BE TOGETHER.
Give me your heart...and let your eyes delight in my ways. ~Proverbs 23:26
1 comment:
what a beautiful topic...
made me get all teary-eyed again (easy to do these days).
so true.
good stuff.
i am continuing to pray =)
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