Day 14 - June 28, 2009

Day 14: Love takes delight

Enjoy life with the wife you love all the days of your fleeting life.

—Ecclesiastes 9:9 HCSB

TODAY’S DARE

Purposefully neglect an activity you would normally do so you can spend quality time with your spouse. Do something he or she would love to do or a project they’d really like to work on. Just be together.

Today we went a double date together. After the date I watched him play his new video game (something I use to do when we were dating), while I rubbed his head.

It's tough being pregnant through this. It's like a magnetic pull for me to him. No matter how I feel; I just want to be near him, close to him. I know it's my baby because my desire would be to back off - distant. Maybe I am really learning what the the love dare book spoke of, "it's time to lead your heart to once again delight in your mate." Just maybe being pregnant is benefiting my relationship with Steve, the pull it gives me to want him inspite of everything.

When we were dating I wrote a short poem for him about choosing him (right now, I feel it being about even choosing to love him and no other):

Deep in my heart
Beats your name
None other it greets
All others are shamed
For those I do not choose
Who think they are men
Belittled are those
Whose love lives in sin
And if another
Was a clone of you
I'll call him brother
To you I'll say I do

Copyright © 2002 by Angela Boyce

I am choosing him again. I guess I should write another poem about this. : )