The Revitalization of my Life-Day 35

Woke up this morning with a good heart, a good mind and a good spirit. I had no negative thoughts. Most of the time we wake up thinking about something from the prior day that wasn't so good. Not today. I told myself the night before that I was going to wake up with a new mind and a new way of thinking. Before I went to bed I was reading the Love Dare (great book for couples who are married and about to get married. This is my second time reading it and each time I learn something different. I was reading it to make sure that I was doing some things right within my marriage. I have seen people get comfortable and complacent and I was checking to make sure I hadn't become that way. While I was reading it I started thinking about all of the time that I had been putting into my marriage. Focusing solely on making everything right for my wife. This is not a bad thing, not bad at all. But sometimes you have to think about what's going on in your life. you have to learn how to balance.

By balance I mean I need to take a little time and focus on my writing. There is nothing wrong with having the best of both worlds. I can give my wife a lot of time and also give my writing a lot of time as well. I think a lot of times a lot of people don't think that they can balance certain things after they are married. They read to much into some of the phrases and things that a marriage consist of. When you hear that you have to mainly focus on your spouse, it doesn't mean stop everything that you are doing and just focus on them for the rest of your life. It just means that they need to be your main focus. Take care of them first and then do whatever else you want to do. That's the one thing I love so much about the Bible. It's written to cater to all of our needs. It's a guide that fits YOUR situation at the time you need it.

This is how marriage should be taken. The guidelines for it should be taken and interpreted to cater to what's going on your life at that moment. And we should realize that what works for John and Sally, might not work for Jim and Susan, but if they take the time and read it for themselves, they just might find something that will work for them.

"Advice shouldn't be taken literally but figuratively-it's a guide, not the gospel"-K.J Swint