The Love Dare

Brad and I started the Love Dare on Saturday. It is a 40 challenge and you can buy the book from Walmart. I encourage couples to read it and take the dare. If you commit to 40 days, the result can change your life and marriage. If you don't want to spend the $11 on the book, check my blog daily and I will sum up the challange for the day.
Day one: Love is patient.
Love is life's most powerful motivator. We are born with a lifelong thirst for love, and no marriage is successful without it. Love is built on 2 pillars, patience and kindness. When you choose to be patient, you respond in a positive way to a negative situation. You are slow to anger, and choose to have a longer fuse. No one likes to be around an impatient person, it causes you to overreact in angry and foolish ways. Patience is a choice to control your emotions rather than letting your emotions control you. It makes us wise, and doesnt rush to judgement, but listens to what the other person is saying. And the most important lesson I recieved from the message was this: Patience helps you give your spouse permission to be human. It understands that everyone fails. It gives you the ability to hold on during the tough times in your relationship rather that bailing out under pressure.
The love dare journey is a process, and the 1st thing you must resolve to possess to patience.
Todays DARE: The first part of this dare is fairly simple..Although love is communicated in a number of ways, our words often reflect the condition of our heart. For the next 24 hours resolve to demonstrate patience and to say nothing negative to your spouse at all. If the temptation arises, choose not to say anything.
We finished our dare last night and I must say, it was harder than it looks. But after the success, Brad and I both agreed that yesterday was one of the best days of our marriage! So, take the challege with us!

"Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger" James 1:19