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The
Rewards of Genuine Acts of Service.
How would a wife respond to a husband who sincerely
sought to serve her? In my desperation I was determined to find out. I set
myself to discovering her needs and desires and sought to fulfill them. I
began quietly and slowly to do some of the things she had requested in the
past. You see, by now we were too estranged to talk about our
relationship, but I could choose to take action on some of her previous
complaints.
I started washing dishes without being asked. I
volunteered to fold the clothes. It seemed to me these where the kind of
things Jesus might have done had He been married. When she made specific
requests, I determined to respond cheerfully and if possible to do them.
In less than three months, my wife's attitude toward
me began to change. She came out of her shell of withdrawal and began to
talk again. I think she sensed that my days of preaching were over and
that my attitude toward her was changing. Genuine acts of service seldom
go unrewarded.
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