I picked up my "Love Dare" book today and decided it was time to go through it again. Or should I say...pick up where I left off. I don't know if any of you have been through it but it makes you look at your spouse in a whole new way. So that's why I start going through it and suddenly it's been months since I did anything in it. I opened it and of course was exactly where I needed to be right now in this moment of my life. "Love Believes the Best" This chapter talks about having deep and private corridors in our hearts that lead to 2 rooms. One is the Appreciation Room in which we write positive words and phrases on the walls about our spouse. The other one is the Depreciation Room where we write all the negative and frustrating words and phrases on the walls. And we need to make a choice which room where are going to camp in when it comes to our relationship with our spouse.
Yeah...talk about hitting me upside the head! This is it. I hold my heart back from everyone including my husband. Especially my husband. He is the closest to me and the one that can hurt me the most and the one I can hurt the most. It is the scariest to be vulnerable to him.
But I was thinking that these rooms are not the only ones past the corridors. There are rooms for our parents, children, friends, enemies and even God. If we look at past memories and our relationships we will have good and bad events that happened. We need to look at them and see if we dedicated an entire room for bad memories and who they involve. Who's taking up space in our hearts and what doors need to be shut.
The process of me learning to see myself for who I was created to be is to clear all the cobwebs out in my mind. I've known that and have worked hard on doing that but I've never visualized it in such a way as the Love Dare book did for me. All the times that I felt unprotected have taken root in my heart and mind. They have taken over thought processes in a way that sometimes controls my life and actions. And I've chosen to camp out in the Depreciation part of my heart to protect myself. But I am then not allowing God to protect me in the process. I'm not believing in His promises and that He has a bigger plan full of surprises and excitement.
I pray that you will take a look at your "Depreciation Room(s) in your heart and work to clean off all the graffiti and negative phases and comments written on the wall(s). It's time to set up camp and live in the Appreciation Room of our hearts!
"Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God." Ephesians 5:1-2 (NIV)
"Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents. Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn't love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that." Ephesians 5:1-2 (The Message)
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