Challenge #27

I hope everyone got in some good face-to-face and/or shoulder-to-shoulder time with their spouses this weekend. Finding a new or better way to interact with your spouse should always bring some joy and excitement to your marriage. If you feel you can spend more shoulder-to-shoulder or face-to-face time with your spouse, please do so. One big way that we do shoulder-to-shoulder time around here is home improvement projects. We both love it because it gives us an opportunity to not only improve our home, but to work together in joint effort and see our goals come to fruition. ;-) One way that we do face-to-face time is by putting the children to bed a little earlier on certain nights. Instead of turning the tv on, we just sit and talk and catch up. There doesn't have to be any particular topic; it can be as simple as what's new with you or who have you talked to lately - the point is to narrow the distance and to stay in communication with eachother.

Yesterday I got to thinking about what it is like to rely on someone else when you can't do something on your own. I find it much easier to ask for help from someone who is eager to help in the first place. That is our challenge today. Be eager to do for your spouse today. Let's discuss what "eager" means so there is no mistake in what's being said here. Eager means "marked by enthusiastic or impatient desire or interest." So be happy and enthusiastic about doing things for your spouse today - show them that you can't wait to do for them!

Whether it's helping with the laundry, cooking a meal, wrangling the children, opening the door for them, whatever you can think of! I literally mean, whatever you can think of. Let's remember that God loves to see us do good for and to our spouse and that He knows our hearts and the reason why we do what we do.

"So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work." 2 Corinthians 9:7-8

Show your eagerness to be of service to your spouse today. The daily bible verse for today says: “With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;” -Ephesians 4:2 Coincidence? I think not.