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A Love Affair
Contributed by Ralph Andrus on Feb 24, 2010 (message contributor)
Summary: Are you Romantic? - Having a love affair with excitement & adventure in your marriage
- Love Affair, one of the 1939 Best Picture nominees & Best Actress
- Starring Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer
- At a premarital counseling the minister asks how long they have know each other
- 9 out of ten the groom will answer, ’2 or 3 years, ’ while the bride will say, ’3 or 4 years. ’
- In other words, she has had her eye on him, and he has been a dead duck for a year before he knew anything about it.”
Romantic Poem – “Slippery Ice”
Slippery Ice — Very Thin
Pretty girl — Tumbled in
Gave a shriek – Then she sank
Boy on hand — Heard her shout
Jumped right in — Pulled her out
Now he’s her’s — Very nice
But she had to break the ice
- How Do You Stay in Love?
- Romance
- Almost half (46%) of all paperbacks sold in the US are romance novels
- A Romance is a love affair.(Merriam-Webster)
Bible has much about Romance
- Stories
- Books (Ruth, S of S, Hosea
- Ch. - 1 Cor. 13
Love Is: 1 Cor. 13
v. 1-3 - Indispensable
v. 4-7 - Invaluable
v. 8-10 - Infallible
v. 11-13 - Immortal
- Are you Romantic? - Having a love affair with excitement & adventure
- That’s what I want to have an affair with Alice that is exciting & fun
- (Setting up a treasure hunt for Alice)
Why Romance (Love Affair)
1. Romance Strengthens Your Relationship
- Brings you closer together
- Builds memories
- Creates communication
2. Romance Enriches Life
- Life was meant to be live to the fullest
- Investing time for romance will give a fuller, broader, richer life
3. Romance Gives You Something to Look Forward to
- Like the Friday Night date
- Planning is half the fun
- Doing it is enjoying the fun
- Remembering is reliving the fun
4. Romance Creates Positive Memories
- We live in a negative world
- We counter that by building memories that are good
- Pocono Mountains was planed in secret as we planned Kim’s wedding
- If yiou don’t plan & dream you will never have a memory
5. Romance Models Marriage For Your Children
- One of the best ways we can express love to our children is by showing them that you love each other
- Brings security & hope to their lives
Back to 1 Cor. 13
Redo
v. 1-3 - Indispensable
v. 4-7 - Invaluable
v. 8-10 - Infallible
v. 11-13 - Immortal
Acronym - L-O-V-E
L - Laughter - Reflects the heart
v. 1-3 - Indispensable
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. Proverbs 15:13, 17:22
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
O - Other Centered
v. 4-7 - Invaluable
- Putting the other ahead of yourself even though you don’t like it or feel like it
V - Value
v. 8-10 - Infallible
- Your spouse is your gift from god
- Treat them royally
- As a Queen or King
- Don’t wait for tragedies to remember
- See them as if you are seeing & touching for the first time
E - Encouragement
v. 11-13 - Immortal
- Use “I love you” , “I’m sorry”. “Please forgive me”
- Don’t let the little things go by unnoticed
- Alice flower cards & candy wrapper noes saved
- “50 creative dating ideas”
- Marriage takes work
- Your marriage is worth celebrating
