Today my husband and I had our usual date night. Every week on Wednesday, we try to go somewhere we haven't been before to eat or we stay at home and cook. Date night in the beginning was not what I would call very "romantic". Picture this, husband and wife sitting across from each other in a dimly lit restaurant on their cellphones checking emails, doing text messages, and looking at the news reports coming across the television in the restaurant. See I told you nothing romantic at all. We finally had to take a hard look at how we were doing date night wrong. Because we didn't "go out on dates" when we first met each other, we had no clue what we were doing. Sometimes I still feel like after 15 years I have no clue of what I'm doing. But anyway....we started asking questions. The kind of questions that one should ask every so often of one another. More specifically from 1 Corinthians 13. This chapter is called the "Love Chapter" and for good reason. It lists all the things love does and doesn't do. Now what we do is we go through the entire chapter but instead of love is patient, love is kind we put our names in place of love. Am I patient with my husband? Is he kind to me? When you start looking at love and romance in that way, you begin to see what you both need to work on. This all came about when my husband was watching a sermon by Pastor John Piper. He explained that he and his wife every so often go through this chapter to see where they are in their relationship. So we took the idea and started trying it out. I can say that it has led to some pretty interesting discussions at dinner. I'm so happy that we can now gaze into each others eyes instead of our cellphones.
