Thursday, May 26, 2011

Non-Negotiables

Dear Boaz,

If there's one thing you'll learn about me, it's that I like making lists (and if they're on post-its, it's even better.) I've written down somewhere in a journal (and it's also in typed document) a list of qualities I'm praying God is cultivating in you. This isn't the whole list, but the things that are the core of qualities/attributes I hope you'll have.

I'm praying that you are...

- completely and totally devoted to your relationship with Jesus, striving to know Him, growing to be more like Him and love Him passionately.
-willing to sacrifice for me
-going to cherish and nourish our relationship ( through romance)
-willing to understand me (study me and know what causes my soul to thrive and also what deflates it)
-honors me (consideration, chivalry, listens)
-protective of me physically (safety and security), emotionally (sensitivity to my feelings), spiritually (able to tell me what you're thinking so that I wouldn't be fixated on what's on your mind and be distracted from my own relationship with Christ)

 Mark 12:29-30, Ephesians 5:25-33, 1 Peter 3:7 (Yes, biblical references. I'll get to my side of things in another blog...)

May our Lord continue to bless you and provide opportunities in your life that shape and mold you into the man He has called you to be and the one He will someday bring to me. I pray in my own life I'm becoming the woman worth waiting for...

Love,

Your Ruth

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