How to Say I Love You, Part 1
By Rusty Hilliard
The
most commercialized time of year isn’t Christmas, it is Valentine’s Day. This is
when we are told to say I love you through greeting cards and chocolate. Allow
me to say up front, there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG WITH CHOCOLATE! However, there are other ways to show our
love for one another.
Modern-day marriage is in trouble; more couples
are separating, and ending their journey together. The following seven tips are from Ron Edmondson.
He has been a preacher, church planter, and counselor for several years. In two articles he offered seven tips to
husbands and wives to help and strengthen marriages.
I won’t be offering cards and chocolates to anyone not named Laney, but
here are four tips for husbands. See the
things we can do to avoid injuring our wives from an emotional standpoint, then
next week we will offer some tips to the ladies.
Include your
wife in any discussion; value her input, thoughts, and opinions.
Notice the
difference she makes in the household, and in the relationship as a whole.
Respect her as
a person and partner.
Lead your
house, and provide the spiritual example. (Ephesians
5: 25)
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the
church and gave Himself for her,
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How to Say I Love You, Part 2
An
elderly couple went out for dinner. There was another couple there. That husband had his arm around his wife. The first wife turned to her husband and asked: “Hank,
why don’t you ever do that?” Hank glanced at the other couple, looked at his
wife, and said: “Honey I don’t even know that woman. It would be weird.”
Last
week we offered our men a few tips on ways that they can avoid injuring their
wives. In
today’s article, we want to help our ladies gain some insight to the men in
their lives.
Praise your
husband in front of others. Your spouse is
not the punch line of any joke.
If he works
around the house, just say thanks.
Remove the “You always phrase”
from your vocabulary-it usually leads to an argument.
The point of these articles has
been to get husbands and wives to think of the relationship they share. Love and marriage doesn’t just matter on February
14; love is something that we work on and share every day of our lives. For an example, look no further than the love
which God displays for his children by sending his son to earth. (John 3: 16)
For
God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever
believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
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