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Wednesday, August 7, 2013

How to stay in love




1. Choose love.
2. Love selflessly. It's not only about you.
3. Choose love.
4. Treat him as you want him to treat you.
5. Choose love.
6. Affirm him with kind and uplifting words.
7. Choose love.
8. Find/make alone time with him.
9. Choose love.
10. Spend time doing something together that you both enjoy.
11. Choose love.
12. Talk, communicate, explain yourself...he cannot read your mind.
13. Choose love.
14. Have the same patience with him that you would have with a friend or co-worker.
15. Choose love.
16. Pray for him and your marriage everyday.
17. Choose love.
18. Forgive quickly, and quickly ask for forgiveness.
19. Choose love.
20. Don't look around, don't look at pictures, don't look at movie stars, don't look at your neighbour-Look at HIM and love what you see.
21. Choose love.
22. Say Thank You.
23. Choose love.
24. Laugh together, laugh at his jokes, laugh at yourself.
25. Choose love.
26. Choose him over work, hobbies, house cleaning, friends and family.
27. Choose love.
28. Do random acts of kindness for him. Surprise him.
29. Choose love.
30. Read the Bible together.
31. Choose love.
32. Pray together.
33. Choose love.
34. Count his amazing qualities and all of the reasons you are thankful for him.
35. Choose love.
36. Remember the reasons you fell in love in the first place.
37. Choose love.
38. Be honest and trustworthy.
39. Choose love.
40. Always defend him, support him and show him respect.

And when all else fails...Choose love. It must be a choice. Not "like", or infatuation, or passion, or romance. But lifelong, unconditional, selfless, difficult, forever love.


Proverbs 17:9
Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends.

Song of Solomon 8:6
Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame.

John 15:13
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.   1 Corinthians 13:4–8a
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails...

Colossians 3:14
And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

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