Day 4

Day 4

Love is thoughtful

How precious also are Your thoughts to me... How vast is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand.---Psalm 139:17-18

Today's Dare: Contact your spouse during working hours just to see how he is doing and ask if there is anything that you can do for hi.

Simple! I do this all the time. We contact each other several times a day asking how the other one is, what we want for dinner, how the kids are, if there is anything the other one wants and little reminders.

Kal has a great job and I feel so blessed that it is a job where I can call him or email him. I can even IM him if I want (which we do sometimes). We feel blessed in general that he has a job. We have seen people lose their jobs left and right and we know that is not something that is going to happen with Kal. He works for the state. I think with the lines of communication open which he is at work makes it much simpler to be thoughtful.

If you do not learn to be thoughtful, you end up regretting missed opportunities to demonstrate love. Thoughtfulness is a silent enemy to a loving relationship.

Wow. I would have never thought about it that way before. Now that I have read that I completely agree. I think that is why people give the silent treatment when they are upset. You know that it irritates the other and it is not thoughtful. I, on the other hand, would rather just say what is bothering me when it is bothering me. I think if I were to hold it all in I would just explode. Also, I believe when you do that you work up what is bothering you into something that is much bigger.

So not much for today I guess. I didn't actually call Kal while at work today. He came home early so it was still during the working day. I asked how he was. He was tired. Then I was doing laundry and asked what I could do to help him get ready for his trip this weekend. He needed laundry done so I started the wash for him so that he could gather up his belongings and wash them.

Kal is leaving to go camping and white water rafting. Although this is not really what I want him to be doing 9 months out of surgery (and he knows how I feel) I hope that they have a great time and that everything goes well. We will miss him this weekend.

Is anyone reading....I like comments!! =)