3 simple words. I love you.
How often do you say these words to your loved ones?
Do your actions show those you love that you do love them?
Is the way you spend your time a reflection of your love for those closest to you?
I love you. Tell your loved ones, either in word or deed {or both}!
Ironing is an important part of my weekly routine. It is a simple thing I actually enjoy.
I don’t enjoy it because I love to iron. I enjoy it because it is a simple act of love. I joyfully iron because I love my husband!
His love language is Acts of Service. He feels loved when he has starched jeans and crisp shirts.
Once a week, I get the iron and starch out, get some toys for Paxton, turn the radio on, put Paxton in the floor to play and I iron. I put the freshly ironed jeans and shirts in the closet and know that every time my husband pulls out an article of clothing to wear, he feels loved because I took the time to serve him through ironing.
What is your spouse’s love language? What are ways you love them with their love language in mind?
This post was originally published August 27, 2008.
This morning my sweet husband let me sleep in which was absolutely wonderful! I am so thankful for such an amazing man who goes to work every day and allows me to stay home ungrudgingly. How God has blessed me with a man like this! These were the thoughts on my heart this morning.
Then I found out that another person I know is getting divorced. In the past few months, John David and I have known several friends and acquaintances from our hometowns that have separated or divorced. It hurts my heart every time I hear this news because it is not what God wants. I was so hurt this morning that I knew that I could only turn to God for comfort and assurance.
I have been reading the Psalms lately and today I read Psalm 136.
Psalms 136 (The Message)
Thank God! He deserves your thanks. His love never quits.
Thank the God of all gods, His love never quits.
Thank the Lord of all lords. His love never quits.
Thank the miracle-working God, His love never quits.
The God whose skill formed the cosmos, His love never quits.
The God who laid out earth on ocean foundations, His love never quits.
The God who filled the skies with light, His love never quits.
The sun to watch over the day, His love never quits.
Moon and stars as guardians of the night, His love never quits.
The God who struck down the Egyptian firstborn, His love never quits.
And rescued Israel from Egypt’s oppression, His love never quits.
Took Israel in hand with his powerful hand, His love never quits.
Split the Red Sea right in half, His love never quits.
Led Israel right through the middle, His love never quits.
Dumped Pharaoh and his army in the sea, His love never quits.
The God who marched his people through the desert, His love never quits.
Smashed huge kingdoms right and left, His love never quits.
Struck down the famous kings, His love never quits.
Struck Sihon the Amorite king, His love never quits.
Struck Og the Bashanite king, His love never quits.
Then distributed their land as booty, His love never quits.
Handed the land over to Israel, His love never quits.
God remembered us when we were down, His love never quits.
Rescued us from the trampling boot, His love never quits.
Takes care of everyone in time of need. His love never quits.
Thank God, who did it all!
His love never quits!
What a comfort to know that no matter what happens on this earth that God’s love never quits! And in a marriage if both partners are committed to each other and most importantly committed to God and seeking him that God will never allow their love for each other to quit. I can’t imagine how God’s heart much ache when his followers choose to abandon their marriage.
He created marriage and with God at the center of the marriage it will succeed! His love never quits!
This recipe was originally published February 6, 2009.
It is one of our favorite dips! My husband frequently requests it and I love making it for him as a way to show him how much I love him!
1 pound chicken breasts, boiled & finely shredded
1/2 cup buffalo wing sauce
8 ounces cream cheese
1 cup shredded mozzarella
Directions:
1. Toss chicken with wing sauce. Marinate for 30 minutes.
2. Spread cream cheese in bottom of small baking dish (12-inch cast iron, 8×8 baking dish). Spread chicken on top of cream cheese, then cheese on top.
3. Bake at 350 degrees F for 30 minutes or until bubbly.
4. Serve with tortilla chips.
Buffalo chicken dip is great for watching football, movie night and parties!
*Use chicken legs or thighs to boil, shred & marinate instead of chicken breasts to save money!
Last week I left at 8 a.m. Monday morning and didn’t return until 8 p.m. the following Sunday. This was the longest I’ve ever left my husband. Since he is used to being cared for, I did some planning to help make his week a little easier.
I did all of the laundry and ironing before I left so he was stocked up with clean underclothes and ironed clothes for work.
I made out a detailed menu for him. I wrote out the plan day by day, telling him what to cook and what side to prepare. I took all of the meats out of our freezer in the basement and put them in our kitchen freezer to make it a little easier!
Since he loves his sweet tea, I brewed 2 gallons of tea so he wouldn’t have to worry about making it!
I also made sure our home was clean so he could come home from work each day and relax.
After a week away, I honestly was expecting a slightly messy home but I came home to just a few dishes in the sink and an overflowing laundry hamper (and I’m happy as long as the clothes are in the hamper!) Everything else was perfectly clean!!
As for the state of our home once I arrived, not so neat! I’m beginning to think that maybe I’m the one with the “messie” problem and not him!
*My sweet husband is not helpless, he could have survived just fine doing his own laundry and planning meals for himself. However, his love language is acts of service and I wanted him to have reminders throughout the week that I love him and joyfully serve him even while away!
John David and 9-week-old Paxton on Father’s Day! I just love my husband even more now that he’s a father! What a blessing children are!
