A man and his girlfriend were
married, it was a large celebration. All their friends and family came to see
the lovely ceremony. The bride was gorgeous in her white wedding gown and the
groom was very dashing in his black suit. Everyone could tell that the love had
for each other was true.
A few months later, the wife
comes the husband with a proposal:
“I read in the 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 separate rooms 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 come up with.
The next morning, at the
breakfast table, they decided that they would go over their list.
“I’ll start,” offered the wife.
She took out her list. It had many items on it
enough to fill three 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 lists.”
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 on top of it.
“Now, you read your list and
then we’ll talk about the things on both 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 to change 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 hi acceptance for her, turned her
head and wept.
-----Some true messages from
this--------
There are enough times when
we are dis appointed, depressed and annoyed. We don’t really have to go looking
for them. That is the full beauty, light and promise. Why waste time in this
world looking for the bad, disappointing or annoying things when we can look
around us ,and see the wondrous things before us? I believe that WE ARE HAPPIST
WHEN WE SEE AND PRAISE THE GOOD AND TRY OUR BEST TO FORGET THE BAD.
Always remember:
Nobody’s PERFECT but we can find PERFECTNESS
in them to change the way we see them.
This article
was taken from our Baptist Banner dated Dec. 27,2015
