Learning to love my wife

So its been a really long time since i've last posted. A new season of life has unfolded for me. I've been married now for 7 months. My awesome wife has jumped right into ministry with me. She has led small groups in clubs with me and serves with us every week in our ministry to children in our church. Love still hasn't changed but my understanding has increased. In this crazy paced life that we keep, its easy to get caught in the whirlwind an let time pass by. Along with it go the opportunities that I have to be with my wife.  I often find myself not making the time to love on my wife. To take time to spend with just us and listen to what she has to say. I love my wife, but I must always choose to show it.

I never want to neglect my wife. She is the dearest thing to me. Learning how to make time for everything is quite difficult. Figuring out how to love my wife in the midst of everything isn't. I simply have to prioritize. She is the most important. I must choose to love her, and then make time for the rest. As I began to realize this I came up with a plan. One date night a week. Some will be really amazing, some simple and fun, some romantic.

As part of our first weekly date night I revealed the new plan to her. I wrote her a poem and read it to her over a candle lit dinner. After dinner I took her to our room where I had made an area to hang pictures and keepsakes of our weekly date nights. Date two was a lunch at a really awesome pizza place before going to the driving range for a lot of laughs and bad shots. This was something she had mentioned she would like to do sometime. That's really what its all about. Not about spending lots of money and being really fancy. To show her I love her. To show her I listen. To make sure she knows that she is the most important.