How to Love your Spouse through the Mundanity

  Lately, life has come with beauty and banged up corners of repetition and disorder. Our toddler gets fussy (I’m sure your toddler does too) and our dog has health problems. In the midst of pandemonium and mundanity, it’s hard to stop and notice your spouse. 

So, how can you love your spouse in the muddled moments?

If your children are crying, the dogs are barking, and spills are water-falling to the ground…just stop…stop, for one minuscule minute and notice your husband or wife. 

When you’re in the thicket of tidying, tinkering, tampering, and “tucking in bed”…look up at your husband or wife and notice the person you fell in love with. Think upon “young days”. Remember who you both were and who you both become. Connect to their heart with a cord of care.

Be attentive to your spouse even when screams scatter through the living room. Glance at them and cohere with a smile. The screams and fussiness will fade as you wrap your thoughts around your spouse’s spirit. 

Cleave to your spouse during the chaos. Find that porthole through the thick steel of solidarity. Seek your soulmate and reconnect even if it’s with a kiss.

How else can you love your spouse during obscurity?

Don’t forget the affection in the midst of daily duties:

• Dance in the kitchen under the strobe can lights while your little one eats in the highchair.
• Hug in the reflection of the TV playing cartoons.
• Kiss amidst the sound of baby laughter, spinning laundry, and boiling pots. 

At the end of the day…pray over your snuggled toddler, then kiss once again under their twinkling lamp. 

Stop…glance…and to life, dance.