Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor.

—Romans 12:10

Today's Dare

Whatever you put your time, energy, and money into will become more important to you.  It's hard to care for something you are not investing in.  Along with restraining from negative comments, buy your spouse something that says "I was thinking of you today."

What a start to the day! The kids are sick. We woke up early this morning 3.20 am, by daughter got sick in her bed. Bless her! She tried “cleaning” up herself. So here we both are early hours of the morning, I’m running a bath, hubby is pulling soiled bedding off her bed. So we worked as a team to get new bedding on, to give our daughter a bath and getting the linen and her dirty PJ’s in the wash!

What man, gets up with his wife to do all these things? Mine does, and I thank God for him every day! So after we got everyone settled again, we turned in ourselves again for another hour of sleep, before we have to get ready for work.

This morning, the kids got up, our daughter needed the loo again, but she was able to control it, until she got there. While I’m still thinking it is not a good idea for the kids to go to school, hubby said to me, that he would stay home with both the kids today, making sure they get meds when they need to and nebulising our son as often as he should! I have not spoken a word about it, but was still thinking how I was going to get off of work with month end etc. Thank God for this wonderful man! Is he doing the Love Dare too? LOL

So today I’m supposed to buy him something to say I was thinking of him. I will pray on it, because it must be something pretty special for such a wonderful partner.

I prayed the whole day about the dare and of course a few other things as I do, but no answer on buying hubby something. When I got ready to leave for home, it pressed really hard on me to go to the post office to check the mail. Hubby had been waiting a while of a magazine he is subscribed to monthly but our Postal service was on strike, so it was delayed. But today when I went, the magazine was there, and I knew this was it. Our post office is a bit out of town, so when I brought the magazine to him last night, he was delighted that I had taken time to go check. My dare was completed, and he knew I was thinking about him today.

I made sure that I took time to properly thank him for taking the day off to look after the kids, and he said it actually did him some good too, since he is also quite sick. He needed the rest.

Both of us had our prayer and devotion time again tonight.

Scripture:

1 Corinthians 15

⁵⁰ What I mean, friends, is that what is made of flesh and blood cannot share in God's Kingdom, and what is mortal cannot possess immortality.

 ^51-52Listen to this secret truth: we shall not all die, but when the last trumpet sounds, we shall all be changed in an instant, as quickly as the blinking of an eye. For when the trumpet sounds, the dead will be raised, never to die again, and we shall all be changed.⁵³ For what is mortal must be changed into what is immortal; what will die must be changed into what cannot die.⁵⁴ So when this takes place, and the mortal has been changed into the immortal, then the scripture will come true: 
         Death is destroyed; victory is complete!

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         Where, Death, is your victory? 
   Where, Death, is your power to hurt?

   
⁵⁶ Death gets its power to hurt from sin, and sin gets its power from the Law.⁵⁷ But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

 ⁵⁸ So then, my dear friends, stand firm and steady. Keep busy always in your work for the Lord, since you know that nothing you do in the Lord's service is ever useless.

Amen!