_                 From the Pastor's Desk
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_ Here are some great ideas, even after Valentine’s Day,  for a smart marriage:

· He likes to have my hair a little longer. I prefer it short, but I’ll wear it longer for him.
· Turn off the football game and watch a movie she wants even if it’s a chick flick.
· Just sitting on the couch together instead of one of us on the computer.
· Do the dishes or vacuum the house, even when it’s not your  turn.
· Hug and kiss each other every morning before one of you leaves the house. (Research indicates that marriages that  
  practice this simple discipline are much healthier than those that don’t.)
· Make your spouse coffee in the morning before he or she heads off to work.
· Clean your spouse’s car.
· Pick her some wildflowers and walk through the door with them.
· Set the table for whoever is doing the cooking.
· Send an intimate personal text message.
· Ask him or her to meet you for a nice lunch break.
· Reach across the table, the front seat of your car or the couch to hold his/her hand, even if only for a few moments.
· Go an entire day without saying anything to your spouse except praise…affirmation for who they are and what they mean to
  you.
· Go to bed at the same time as him/her for a week. Talk, read or share the quietness together.
· Call, send an email or text message mid-day just to see how the other is doing.
· Open the car door for her; pull out the chair for her at the dinner table; help her put her coat on.
· Fix his/her favorite meal without them asking.
· Brag on your spouse in public.
· Compliment your spouse in front of your children.
· Find creative ways to tell each other “I love you” in code.
· Add a candle to the dinner table as a way of telling your spouse you consider the evening special and romantic, simply
  because they’re there.

Also here is the link to the SMART Dating and Marriage sermons.

Blessings,
Doug


 
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