I am reading a faith-based book "The Love Dare." It is a 40-day challenge for husbands and wives to understand and practice unconditional love. Each day you will read a new understanding what it means to genuinely love someone while learning more about the design, nature, and source of true love. Each reading includes Scripture, a statement of principle, the day's "dare."
Day 1
Love is patience
Be completely humble and gentle, be patient, bearing with one another in love. Ephesians 4:2
Today's reading was about being patience with your spouse. Love will inspire you to become a a patience person. When you choose to be patience you respond in a positive way.
No one likes to be around an impatient person. It causes you to overreact in foolish and angry ways. Anger almost never makes things better. But patience stops problems in their tracks.
Patience makes us wise. It doesn't rush to judgement but makes us listen to what the other person is saying. It calms us down. Patience helps you give your spouse permission to be human.
THE DARE
For the next day, resolve to demonstrate patience and say nothing negative to your spouse at all. If the temptation arises choose not to say anything. It's better to hold your tongue then to say something you'll regret.
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