sugiggs says Sep 05, 2009 03:33PM 'Enjoy life with the wife you love all the days of your fleeting life' Ecclesiastes 9:9 HCSB
sugiggs says Sep 05, 2009 03:34PM One of the most important things u should learn on your Love Dare journey is that you should not just follow your heart. You should lead it.
sugiggs says Sep 05, 2009 03:35PM You don't let your feelings and emotions do the driving. You put them in the back seat and tell them where you're going.
sugiggs says Sep 05, 2009 03:36PM In your marriage relationship, you won't always feel like loving. It is unrealistic for your heart to constantly thrill at the thought
sugiggs says Sep 05, 2009 03:37PM of spending every moment with your spouse. Nobody can maintain a burning desire for togetherness just on feelings alone.
sugiggs says Sep 05, 2009 03:39PM In other words, love that chooses to love is just as powerful as love that feels like loving.
sugiggs says Sep 05, 2009 03:41PM Left to ourselves, we'll always lean toward being disapproving of one another. She'll get on your nerves. He'll aggravate you.
sugiggs says Sep 05, 2009 03:41PM But our days are too short to waste in bickering over petty things. Life is too fleeting for that.
sugiggs says Sep 05, 2009 03:42PM Instead, it's time to lead your heart to once again delight in your mate. Enjoy your spouse. Take her hand and seek companionship.
sugiggs says Sep 05, 2009 03:43PM Remember why you fell in love with her personality. Accept this person-quirks and all-welcome him/her back into your heart.
sugiggs says Sep 05, 2009 03:47PM Again, you get to choose what you treasure. It's not like you're born with certain pre-sets and preferences you destined to operate from.
sugiggs says Sep 05, 2009 03:48PM So now it's time to lead your heart back out. It's time to learn to delight in your spouse again,
sugiggs says Sep 05, 2009 03:49PM The Bible contains many romantic love stories. (then the book telling about Song of Salomon 2:3-4, 2:13-14)
sugiggs says Sep 05, 2009 03:50PM It's time to remember why you once fell in love. To laugh again. To flirt again. To dream again. Delightfully.
sugiggs says Sep 05, 2009 03:51PM Today's dare may be directing you to a real and radical change of heart. For some, the move toward delight may be only a small step away.
sugiggs says Sep 05, 2009 03:52PM But if you've been delighted before-which you were when you got married-you can be delighted again.
sugiggs says Sep 05, 2009 03:52PM Even it it's been a long time. Even if a whole lot has happened to change your perceptions.
sugiggs says Sep 05, 2009 03:53PM The responsibility is yours to relearn what you love about this one to whom you've promised yourself forever.
sugiggs says Sep 05, 2009 03:54PM **Today's dare**: Purposefully neglect an activity you would normally do so you can spend quality time with your spouse.
sugiggs says Sep 05, 2009 03:54PM Do something he or she would love to do or a project they'd really like to work on. Just be together.
sugiggs says Sep 05, 2009 03:55PM *What did you decide to give up? What did you do together? How did it go? What new thing did you lean (or relearn) about your spouse?*
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