In what ways to you think that our communication could be improved? HDIFAT?

Dear LORD:

Help Ruth and I further improve our communication so that we can stand the storms that life brings into our lives forever. Give us the intimacy and transparency that we need to be strong together, much stronger than we are alone. Amen!

Dearest Ruth:

Your MEQ today was being willing to love and care for me in my medical procedure and the patient and loving way that you were involved with that in my life. I love you for that!

There are a few ways that I feel that our communication could be improved all of which pretty much have to with me (as usual):

1. I need to continue to make a concerted effort to listen to you.
2. I need to be very patient with you , always.
3. I need to be able to push through. I need to always be willing to not give up. Determined in other words.
4. I need to look past the times when you are challenging, and go to the root. I need to see below the surface in other words.
5. I need to be more mature than you are. Given that I can very infantile and childlike at times, this can be a real challenge. I am talking about true maturity, though. I need to always strive to be the one who is willing to flex.
6. I need to be willing to admit that you are right. If I love you enough, I will always be willing to do that.
7. I need to remember what is truly important. Only one thing is truly necessary: That you and I are together. But that is more than just physically together. We must be together in spirit and truth. We must be intimate spiritually.
8. And that gets to some pretty tough territory: I need to be faithful and steadfast to pray for you. You cannot have bad communication with someone who you pray for on a daily basis. I will readily admit that I fall short in this area (although I have been doing far better than I have ever done).

The way I feel about that is loving and care towards you. I know that I love and cherish you by taking care of our communication. I really want to be there for you in this area. I love you dearly. It is extremely important to me. I am willing to be the husband you need to be a joyful, content wife. I want to do that for you, and for God, and for myself. You are all that is truly important to me, above all else. (Yes, our children are very dear to me. But you are my top priority.)

Remember always that you are my one true love.

The love and care I feel to you is a 10 for sure. I would compare it to the love Ye'shua felt when he died for the world. It feels that way. A sacrificial, giving love that frees your soul to be truly happy and blessed. To be willing to die for another frees yourself. To know that you are already dead, that you have nothing left to lose (for you have lost it all already), makes one the most formidable force on the planet.

The force of God's love bursting through in my heart has been unleashed to you, my dear. I will remain committed and dedicated to our communication, and your happiness and joy in life. I will endure. I will remain faithful.

It is what I want. It meets my need too, after all. It overcomes the selfishness of my heart, and deals with the sin in my soul. It gives me what I need to be truly alive: A person who needs my love.

And such a dear person!

Love,
Me