If you look in your dictionary for the word love. I am sure not many of you do look in a dictionary for the word love because we now how to spell it and we “know” what it means. Love is a verb. A verb is action. I think of jumping. You cannot say you jump unless you do something. You have to jump to jump. I know that seems so obvious, like why are you saying that. I say this because 4 days ago my wife left for Guatemala on a mission trip. Like I say almost every day I left her with the words, “I Love You” what does that mean. If love is an action then while she is gone what do I do. What is love when your spouse or loved one is away for a period of time. I am beginning to understand a little bit about what love is. This past week has been a difficult week. I have been with my 2 kids and taking a week off of work. Yes I have had the blessing of parents taking them a couple days. There has not been a tougher week in my life than this past week. I was joking with my wife before she left that I was going to just ship the kids off and spend time by myself. I did not do that this whole week but being a man of integrity I am doing that tonight at the present. I dare any of you men who are husbands and who work hard to make money to put food on the table and to provide a house to live in. I dare you take a week off of work and spend time with your kids, pay for your wife to go and be pampered, or if she is like my wife who loves missions send her on a mission trip or whatever it is that will help her re energize. As I have been thinking about those words we use so much, “I Love you” what would happen if you would stop saying I love you and start doing I love you, this is not erotic love you but what is that you can do to make those all important words a true verb.
What would happen in our marriages and in our homes if instead of saying I love you, you start doing it. Tonight as I spent some time by myself I mopped the kitchen, dining room and front entry way. I have done laundry this week and been able to be with my kids. I have been pondering those words since my life left, so men start loving your wives by doing love rather than saying. There is nothing to great or to small for you to do to show that love. Try to be with your kids for a week, if not a week maybe a couple days then you will understand the work that our stay at home wives go through each and every day. Maybe then we as men will understand what our wives do for us.
Stop say love and start doing love.
1 comment:
I thought you weren't allowed to do laundry!
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