No One Is Perfect....
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A man and his girlfriend were married. It was a large celebration. All
of their friends and family came to see the lovely ceremony and to partake of
the festivities and celebrations. A wonderful time was had by all.
The bride was gorgeous in her white wedding gown and the groom was very
dashing in his black tuxedo. Everyone could tell that the love they had for
each other was true.
About six months later, the wife comes to the husband with a proposal:
"I read in a magazine, a while ago, about how we can strengthen our
marriage." she offered.
"Each of us will write a list of the things that we find a bit
annoying with the other person. Then, we can talk about how we can fix them
together and make our lives happier together."
The husband agreed. So each of them went to a separate room in the house
and thought of the things that annoyed them about the other. They thought about
this question for the rest of the day and wrote down what they came up with.
The next morning, at the breakfast table, they decided that they would
go over their lists.
"I'll start," offered the wife. She took out her list. It had
many items on it. Enough to fill 3 pages, in fact. As she started reading the
list of the little annoyances, she noticed that tears were starting to appear
in her husband’s eyes.
"What's wrong?" she asked. "Nothing" the husband
replied, "keep reading your list."
The wife continued to read until she had read all three pages to her
husband. She neatly placed her list on the table and folded her hands over top
of it.
"Now, you read your list and then we'll talk about the things on
both of our lists." She said happily.
Quietly the husband stated, "I don't have anything on my list. I
think that you are perfect the way that you are. I don't want you to change
anything for me. You are lovely and wonderful and I wouldn't want to try and
change anything about you."
The wife, touched by his honesty and the depth of his love for her and
his acceptance of her, turned her head and wept.
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IN LIFE, there are enough times when we are disappointed, depressed and
annoyed. We don't really have to go looking for them. Why waste time in this
world looking for the bad, disappointing or annoying when we can look around
us, and see the wondrous things before us?
I believe that WE ARE HAPPIEST WHEN we see and praise the good and try
our best to forego the mistakes of our spouse Nobody's perfect but we can find
perfection in them to change the way we see them. It’s necessary to understand
the difficulties and be a helping hand to each other.... THAT BRIGHTENS THE
RELATIONSHIP.
1 Thessalonians 5:10-11 – “Jesus died for us so that, whether we are
awake or asleep, we may live together with him. Therefore, encourage one
another and build each other up……”
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