Life goes all too quickly. Here are 10 ways to ensure that daily living doesn’t turn our marriage into a dull and predictable routine.
1. Treat each day as a gift from God. Say, “I love you,” at least once a day.
2. View your spouse as the favor of God on your life. Give your spouse a 90-second hug every morning.
3. Spend time with your children, as if they were leaving home tomorrow. And, have you smiled lately at your kids?
4. Say the kind things now to your spouse, that you would say about him to others, if anything ever happened to your spouse.
5. Make a life of “no regrets” your daily goal.
6. Look your spouse in the eye, and listen with love and humility when he is speaking to you.
7. Settle the disagreements between you, as if this were the last day of your life.
8. Ask your spouse to tell you the times you have damaged his heart. Don’t attempt to excuse or explain away your wrong behavior.
9. With sincerity say, “I am truly sorry. What I did was wrong. I ask you to please forgive me.”
10. Extend the same grace to your spouse that Jesus Christ has extended to you, through His shed blood on the Cross. We need to be like Jesus and give our spouse, what he needs, not what he deserves.
Proverbs 12:25 “Worry weighs a person down; an encouraging word cheers a person up.”
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About Cheryl Moeller
Cheryl Moeller has been married to her best friend Bob for 30 years. They are the parents of six children, one son-in-law, and three lively dogs. She uses her over-the-counter-top stand up comedy at women's groups and retreats, prays like it's her full-time job, writes a syndicated humor column, blogs about life with lots of kids at www.momlaughs.blogspot.com, and authors books such as Keep Courting: 100 Ways to Keep Courting After Marriage (purchase on their website) and Marriage Miracle (Harvest House 2010). Bob and Cheryl's passion is to connect two hearts for a lifetime. They have co-founded For Better For Worse For Keeps Ministries www.bobandcherylmoeller.com.
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