December 17, 2008
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The Love Dare - Lead your heart...
Last minute Christmas Shopping? Buy yourself The Love Dare and give your husband the gift of honoring him for forty days.
One of the most important things you should learn on your Love Dare journey is that you should not just follow your heart. You should lead it. 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.
The responsibility is yours to relearn what you love about this one to whom you've promised yourself forever.
No other person in the world is supposed to enjoy this level of commitment and endearment from you. Your relationship is like no other. You share physical intimacy with only her, only him. You establish a home with this person. You bear your children with this person. Your heart, possessions, your life itself is to be wrapped up in the uncommon bond you share with this one individual.
Love honors even when it's rejected. Love treats its beloved as special and sacred even when an ungrateful attitude is all you get in return.
That's what love dares to do - to say, "Of all the relationships I have, I will value ours the most. Of all things I'm willing to sacrifice, I will sacrifice the most for you. With all your failures, sins, mistakes, and faults - past and present - I will choose to love and honor you." That's how you create an atmosphere for love to be rekindled. That's how you lead your heart to truly love your mate again. And that's the beauty of honor.
Buy this book. Read it. Do it. Your life will be changed forever.
Comments (4)
I keep forgetting to ask my son how they like the book. I know my DIL told me, after the first chapter, that she really liked it. It sounds very good!
Are you ready for Christmas?
@georgene - There's always more I could do for Christmas. The question is, will I? lol I fall more in the category of simple Christmas. How about you?
Let's see... more gifts needing to be wrapped... I'm not making much candy this year.... so I'm ALMOST there. Not feeling the crunch like normal. We spent less this year which means less work in wrapping and purchasing.
Glad you are almost done and having a simple Christmas.
I wrote you a nice, long comment on your blog concerning the loss of your child and somehow it got lost in cyberspace. I started to rewrite it but was so tired that I gave up. Anyway, I wanted you to know that I was effected by your post and sad to hear of your loss. Depression is a horrible enemy. I've read many times that most depression follows our thoughts. (Gen. 4:5-6) I followed that biblical principle with the loss of my father several years ago and was amazed how true it is. When I start thinking/dwelling on sad thoughts my emotions follow immediately. The same is true when I start thinking biblical thoughts (Phil. 4:8) and get busy working I found that the sadness left. It seems that God taught you the same lesson.
God bless you!
Thank you for the sweet comment. Have a Blessed Christmas with your family!
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