4 Comments to “The Love Dare–Day 4”

1. By Dorothy Marsland, January 5, 2010 @ 7:28 am

   Re Day 4 – We had fun with this one yesterday! I had rec’d a Bluetooth for Christmas so I used it to contact Dave at work as I was off to Book Club at our church yesterday. I was able to reach Dave’s voice mail and thought “this is great – I will just leave a message”. So I left “I love you – that is all I called for”. While we were in book club my phone started ringing – but I could not pick up the call – I have not been able to receive on my new technical device. It was such fun though because during the day we played phone tag – with Dave trying to reach me at home – several messages were left. IT WAS GREAT FUN!
   Thanks Love Dare
2. By Elaine Felice, January 5, 2010 @ 10:53 am

   Hey! I have been trying to follow your love dare challange. I have the book and tried going through it but gave up, long ago. The most difficult thing I find is finding the TIME for eachother and carving out time together. Tht has been our biggest challenge throughout our marriage. But yesterday (Monday) Libro was off and I was off and Jessica was back to school and we spent some time alone together in the afternoon and then I wanted to go out for dineer withthe kids because we barely had any family time over the holidays, but they didnt want to go and I started to get in a bad mood and i told Libro I didnt want to go out for dinner anymore because now my stomach was in knots but he didnt let me off the hook and we had a REALLY nice time with no interruptions and I am so glad we took that time together because it is going to be another crazy busy week with other commitments and stuff. I dont know, how, as a pastor, when so many people demand your time, that you can make time for your relationship with your wife. That has to be the biggest challenge. It is funny how my single friends think that because we are married and live together that we have all the time in the world together which is not at all true. I keep waiting for the day that we have less resposnibilities and we can just spend time alone together but by the time that day comes we will be 80 years old and wont be able to do much!!
3. By Susan Lane, January 5, 2010 @ 12:41 pm

   Everyone needs a day off …I remember those 9 hour work days very well. On the other hand, now you are making me wait an extra day to find out about Day 4!!
4. By Maureen Plante, January 6, 2010 @ 9:45 am

   Well everyone – just to catch you up on what Dwaine gave me for Day 3…He went out after supper and was gone almost an hour. I was thinking that he was going to end up bringing me flowers, because he generally does not have much patience for shopping. Imagine my surprise and pleasure when he gave me the gift of Plant Genie’s. You fill them with water and they keep your plants watered longer. We have lots of plants in the house which take up a lot of time watering, and sometimes I forget until I see them all wilted. This gift will save me the guilt of letting my plants go so long without watering and it showed me that he really thought about what to get me.
   As for Day 4 – our dares were both completed quite early in the day. Since he leaves for work before I get up in the morning, I rarely see him each day before I get home from work. So yesterday I surprised him with a phone call at 6:36 in the morning. He was very surprised and pleased with my call, and when I asked him if there was anything I could do for him he started to laugh. Although, he said no he could not think of anything I could do for him, the night before he had asked me to find out what day and time our next chiropractor appointment was, so I decided I would do that for him. And I did first thing when their office was open. When I told him about it he seemed surprised that I had remembered, but happy that I had.
   He surprised me with a telephone call almost on hour later. It was so nice because usually when he calls that early in the morning it is to ask me to do something for him, but this time it was all about me! He told me how much he loves me and asked me if there was anything he could do for me. I kinda chuckled and asked him if he would be able to empty the dishwasher for me. He said he would and not only did he empty it, but he reloaded it with dirty dishes from the sink. That was nice to come home to. So I cooked him a roast chicken dinner with all the trimmings and he very much enjoyed it he said. We are still practising not saying anything negative as well as being kind. Both of us feel that our relationship is improving. Thank you again for asking us to join you on this journey! God is good.