Day 349 in my miracles life
There is one thing on my 30 before 30 list that means more to me than the others…. Some of the things on my list are simply ‘things’ that i have wanted to do for a long time and others are ‘things’ that i hope will make me a better person, maybe a more grown up and responsible person for my daughter… And to be honest most of the ‘things’ on my list are things i want to do so that my daughter grows up knowing and feeling like she is part of a stable and loving environment, so that my past and the things in my mind that haunt me are not passed onto her.
But this one item on my list, number 24, and actually number 23 as well, i believe will make the relationship i have with my husband stronger, and it is something that i think a lot of relationships miss out on. We get so caught up in the day to day routine of life, with the monotony of complaining, of feeling like we are so hard done by, of dwelling in the past, of simply just living the same thing day in day out, that we forget to appreciate what we have and the small things that our partners do for us.
Number 24 on my list is to tell my husband i love him everyday, and i dont mean just that standard ‘i love you’ i want my i love you to be the kind of i love you where i actually sit down and think about why i love him and say it out loud. Some people may think that a relationship is doomed if you have to sit down and think about why you love a person, but i think in a world where we are so caught up in day to day routine, where people come and go, in a world where sometimes all we hear is the negatives, i think it is important to simply point out the positives that may just be staring you in the face and realise that most of the time the positives outweigh the negatives, it is just that we forget to remember the good things people have to offer to us.
And so, in my style, in the only way that i know how to express myself these days, i am going to write “The things he does” each day, just so that he knows, and so that others know, that no matter how much he annoys me, how insensitive he can be, that no matter how many times i say ARGGG! That the other things he does, truly outweigh everything else, and that at the end of the day, he means more to me than he will ever know…
Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Ephesians 4:2
