Fireproof and Lent...

Ron and I watched "Fireproof" last night. Prior to seeing the movie, we had considered getting the book that it was based to use during Lent (it has 40 different things to do to improve your marriage). After watching the movie, we realized several things:

1. We have a really, really, really good marriage.
2. Marriages are better when they are fruitful.
3. We don't need that book... (hmmm, maybe Ron can buy me a different book then :) )
4. We don't handle cheesy movies very well.

However, it did inspire our Lenten plan for the year:

We each wrote down 40 things that we would like the other person to do for us during Lent. We broke the 40 things up into five categories from the book "The Five Love Languages": words of affirmation, physical touch, acts of service, gifts, and quality time. We'll each draw one random paper each day and serve the other person as they wished.

Some of the examples that we already shared with each other:

• a trip to Dairy Queen to get blizzards (Ron)


• strawberry crepes for breakfast (Rosie)

Lent is shaping up to be pretty fun...but don't worry, there are plenty of penitential ones under the acts of service category.