Welcome to Friday, September the 15th. There are only 107 days left in the year. In most parts of the country, the days are cooling and the nights are cooler. We’re heading into the crisp days of autumn when the leaves begin to drift down from the trees to carpet the ground in the lovely colors of gold, red, orange and yellow. It’s a perfectly romantic time of year and as we head into snuggle weather and fireplace weather – let’s talk about cherishing our spouses.
Back in April, I wrote a post about Celebrating Your Spouse. I wanted to take a few minutes to revisit that post and talk to you about the rituals of celebrating and cherishing our spouses. You can do this any time and you don’t have to wait for a special occasion like a birthday or anniversary in order to celebrate.
Take out a piece of paper and number 1 through 10 on it. Get some different color pens and write down attributes about your spouse that you admire. Once you have 10 of them, write a short, to the point of the sentence about those attributes and don’t qualify your statements – after all, it’s not a celebration that is dependent on something – it’s just a celebration.
Cherish The One You Love
Take these lines that you’ve written and cut them out. Glue them down onto a sheet of paper and draw arrows from the line to a variety of spots and write down examples of why you feel this way. You can take photos of the two of you and surround your statements and examples with photographs of the two of you having fun together.
I guarantee you that by the time you are done – you’ll have a smile on your face and when you give it to the one that you love – they’ll have a smile on their face as well. This is a pretty simple, pedestrian exercise to explore not only your own feelings, but also the feelings of your spouse. I don’t think there is ever such a thing as too much when it comes to demonstrating our appreciation, our caring and our love.
How do you cherish the one that you love?
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