LOVE DARE: Day 2

By Daughter Of Sarah -
Day 2 of the Love Dare :) - LOVE IS KIND...

Kindness is love in action. If patience is how love reacts in order to minimise a negative circumstance, kindness is how love acts to maximipe a positive circumstance.

Patience avoids a problem; kindness creates a blessing. The first is preventive, the latter proactive. These two sides of love are the cornerstones on which many of the other attributes we'll discuss are built.

Kindness is composed of four basic core ingredients. They are-

Gentleness- you are careful how you treat your spouse, never being unnecessarily harsh. Even if you've something hard to say, you'll try to make your rebuke as easy to hear as possible. You speak the truth in love.

Helpfulness- meet the needs of your spouse for the moment. Housework? Get busy. Listening ear? Give it. Kindness graces us with the ability to serve our spouse without worrying about rights. Kindness makes us curious to discover what our spouses needs are, then motivates us to be the one who steps up and ensures those needs are met, even if ours are put on hold.

Willingness- Kindness inspires you to be agreeable. Don't be stubborn. Co-operate. Look for reasons to compromise and accomodate. Listen first rather than expect your way.

Initiative- Kindness thinks ahead and takes the first step. You greet first, smile first, serve first, forgive first- without expecting the other half to get her or His act together before you show love.

Jesus described the kindness of love in the parable of the Good Samaritan.

Don't wait for your spouse to be kind first. It's hard to demo love when you feel little or no motivation. But love in its truest sense is not based on feelings. It determines to show thoughtful actions even when there seems to be no reward. You'll never learn to love until you learn to demo kindness.


Today's reading-

Eph 4:32, Prov 3:3-4, Luke 10, Prov 31:26

Today's dare-

In addition to saying nothing negative to your spouse again today, do at least one unexpected gesture as an act of kindness.

Reflection- What discoveries of love did you make today? What specifically did you do in this dare? How did you show kindness?

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