Love Dare Day 4

Love is Thoughtful

How precious also are Your thoughts to me. . . .

How vast is the sum of them! If I should count them,

they would outnumber the sand. —Psalm 139:17–18

Thoughtfulness.  Be thoughtful of your spouse.

Part of being thoughtful Is saying what you mean, mean what your saying.  Guys don't beat around the bush.  They don't say, "I don't care," and really mean, "I wish you'd cut your hair."  If they want you to cut your hair, they will say, "cut your hair."  Women on the other hand, will say, "no, really I like your hair the way it is," but really they are thinking, "oh Lord, do something with that mop!" 

Being thoughtful also means you think before you speak.  Instead of saying, "you didn't do anything around here today," you say, "wow, you must have been busy with the kids today."  See the difference?  Women tend to shoot off their mouths and then look back and think, "why on earth did I say that?"  I'm so guilty of this! 

Being thoughtful also simply means you think of your spouse before yourself.

Today’s Dare

Contact your spouse sometime during

the business of the day. Have no agenda

other than asking how he or she

is doing and if there is anything

you could do for them.

Today, was fairly easy.  I asked Aaron if there was anything I could do for him and there wasn't.  No biggie.  However, the other part of today's dare is to continue the "no negative talk thing" too.  That was tougher today.  I text a friend and told her I was having a tough time with this and she encouraged me to keep pressing on, if it was easy, it wouldn't be so meaningful, er, something like that.

All material taken from "The Love Dare" by Alex and Stephen Kendrick or Klove.com/blog.