It is true that we cannot give our spouses everything they might like. We cannot give everything they may ever desire nor provide all they may ever need. But would it hurt to take a stab at doing so? Wouldn't it be nice if we know our partners would go all the way to do so? Wasn't it just a few years ago that we thought we were ready to do all or go anywhere just to please and be with our loved one? Love can and may be extravagant. Not necessarily materially because not all desires can be bought with money. But certainly, love has a price. Love ought to be prodigal, generous and reckless. All of us have dreams and desires, it comes in different forms and sizes, some crazy, over the top and some out of this world. While some come with a hefty price and some needs extra effort, the important thing is take careful notice of each one. But some of us over-rationalize things and try to reason how we can't or why we refuse to. But love goes all the way to speak and understand your spouses love language. To shoot for the moon because you aim to please and make your love known and felt. Exceeding expectations. Overwhelming extravagance, not with material things but with love. Fulfilling dreams just because.
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Lord, You have showered me with overwhelming love, a love that I never thought I would ever deserve from You. Despite little motivation, You loved me nontheless. You blessed me with not just my needs but You went all the way by giving even those that I want. You fulfilled my hearts dreams and desires, even those that I know to be undeserved. Even when I did not earn Your good graces, You looked at me and told me I did not have to. You are just too rich in mercy that way. You kept me on my feet when I was heartbroken and listened to me the many times I wept. That while I sinned, You loved me and sent Your Son Jesus Christ to redeem me from my sins. This is the love that You have designed for us Your children, the love that You have desired me to show to my spouse all these years. Father God, touch my heart that I may be able to love overwhelmingly like You do, the kind that is willing, the kind that exceeds expectations, that which indulges eagerly. Open my soul so that I may be my loved one's dreamcatcher, to spoil his imaginations and be the crayons as he draws his castle in the air, to be his easel as he paints those dreams, to indulge those dreams no matter how insane it seems or how unobtainable it may sound-- more importantly the catalyst in the fulfillment of his every dream. Give me a willing heart and mind to walk the extra mile to meet his needs, and to be the one bringing him pleasure and enjoyment, to be the huge reason why not only his lips smile but his heart, too. This Father is what I know to be one of the best gifts I could ever give him, help me give this to him . Amen.
Delight yourself in the Lord; and He will give you the desires of your heart. -- Psalm 37:4
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Lord, You have showered me with overwhelming love, a love that I never thought I would ever deserve from You. Despite little motivation, You loved me nontheless. You blessed me with not just my needs but You went all the way by giving even those that I want. You fulfilled my hearts dreams and desires, even those that I know to be undeserved. Even when I did not earn Your good graces, You looked at me and told me I did not have to. You are just too rich in mercy that way. You kept me on my feet when I was heartbroken and listened to me the many times I wept. That while I sinned, You loved me and sent Your Son Jesus Christ to redeem me from my sins. This is the love that You have designed for us Your children, the love that You have desired me to show to my spouse all these years. Father God, touch my heart that I may be able to love overwhelmingly like You do, the kind that is willing, the kind that exceeds expectations, that which indulges eagerly. Open my soul so that I may be my loved one's dreamcatcher, to spoil his imaginations and be the crayons as he draws his castle in the air, to be his easel as he paints those dreams, to indulge those dreams no matter how insane it seems or how unobtainable it may sound-- more importantly the catalyst in the fulfillment of his every dream. Give me a willing heart and mind to walk the extra mile to meet his needs, and to be the one bringing him pleasure and enjoyment, to be the huge reason why not only his lips smile but his heart, too. This Father is what I know to be one of the best gifts I could ever give him, help me give this to him . Amen.
Delight yourself in the Lord; and He will give you the desires of your heart. -- Psalm 37:4