I am making my first entry, FINALLY!  We had such a great home group tonight.  What I have loved is hearing about other couples' highs & lows and realizing that our struggles are so similar.  Our group decided that instead of "Love Dare" the book should have been titled, "How to perform open heart surgery...on YOURSELF!"  But we all agreed there might have been far less people interested in taking on the challenge.   We are all changing.  Kipp even made the comment that he found himself folding clothes without thinking..."I'll do this as a love dare thing".  It's becoming involuntary.  God bless all of you who are on the journey.  You can do it!  Don't give up!  Some of us are behind a little but we are encouraging one another not to let that get us down.  Now matter when we finish, we are going to finish.  And maybe we'll be like Caleb from the movie & we'll keep going way past Day 40!  Blessings, Marta

The Love Dare assignment was to greet Ramona in a way that made her feel special. OK, that sounds good, but how do I do that?  We had a meeting in Elkhart at Voice Ministries later that day. I knew I could ambush her there. By the time she arrived, the meeting had begun. I had arranged for the secretary to call me when she arrived. When I got that call, I left for the lobby where I knelt down and said, "My queen has arrived." I laid a big kiss on her, picked her up and carried her down the long hall to the office where I plopped her down in the chair awaiting her. I hadn't picked her up like that in years. We laughed all the way down the hallway. She said my face kept getting more and more red and she wondered if I would drop dead in the journey. We have laughed often about this since that day. This was a great exercise for me to do because it is too easy to make my greetings fall into the routine of the day. I have been more mindful of how I greet her since that day. Ramona and I hope the Love Dare is stretching you too. God Bless your marriage. 

John Wilson