LOVE

I am currently reading the book "The Love Dare" by Stephen Kendrick & Alex Kendrick. I strongly suggest you pick up a copy. It is under 15.00 at Wal-Mart! I purchased this book because my husband and I watched the movie "Fireproof".

There are challenges each day I must follow. I have found it very hard to follow some days and others go by smoothly. The biggest problem is when there is negative energy around I feed off that and I become negative. Then I fail to do the right things. I'm not making an excuse, just saying when I am faced with stressers it becomes a challenge on a completely different level. Kinda like when satan is not breathing down your neck it's easy to follow Christ. But when he is all over us tempting us we fail if we are depending on ourselves. One of the verse references is (James 1:19) Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger. I have been really challenged by this scripture!

This book tells you what love is. The true meaning of love. To truly love you must sacrifice daily! It's work to love someone! I don't want to give out to much information about what the book says because I feel you need to first watch "Fireproof" then purchase "The Love Dare" book.

So far, my favorite quote from this book is this. "Love teaches you how to meet in the middle, to respect and appreciate how your spouse uniquely thinks." This may sound simple, but really it is a huge statement. We live in such a ME world.

I am going to continue to read the book daily and face each challenge with a positive attitude. Praying each day I am able to learn to love the way Jesus loves us. His examples are something my dad demonstrated to me.

Thankful for the husband I have,
Rheta