My Weekend Dose of Daily Bread

Combining the lessons that I've learnt from Our Daily Bread for the past two days....

If you think it's possible to love your partner too much, you probably haven't loved enough.

 It's a two-way street in a relationship: sometimes you give, sometimes you take. Sure, it's nice to be fussed over and paid attention to by your boyfriend/girlfriend, and it's nice to spend time together, but end of the day it's important to make sure that both sides have their own space to do the things they like/want to do/have to do. Like soppy dramas or shopping. Or like soccer matches or Starcraft or...soccer matches. Everyone's entitled to their own 'Me-Time' and learn to resist their 'Me-First' urges. So you miss your boyfriend/girlfriend because he or she is away doing whatever (doesn't matter what, what matters is that he/she is NOT there with you) and you put that down to, "It's only because I love him/her so much. If I didn't love him/her, I wouldn't miss him/her so much, right?!" WRONG. It's not love if you're stopping them from doing what makes them happy the most. It's not love if you're only thinking about yourself and what makes you happy. It's not love if you don't look beyond what you want and what's good for you, to what he/she wants and what's good for him/her. It's not love. How can it be love? (Of course, it's different if he/she makes no effort to spend time with you or makes you no. 11 on his Top 10 Priority List. By all means, get mad!)

Anyway, hiting the nail on the head: Christ-like humility equals placing our partner's needs before our own. 

What I've learnt: It. Isn't. Always. About. ME.

God's love confronts and corrects.

Oh yeah, you can say that again. Probably the 1736th time it's happened, with me anyways. But thanks Lord AGAIN, for the timely reminder. 

What I've learnt: God's love never fails. 

(Hang on, but I already knew that! Hmm...xP)