🎁🎈In yesterday’s devotional, we explored the “cruciality”—the great importance—of appreciation within the relationship of a husband and wife.

🎁🎈A husband needs to recognize and acknowledge his wife’s contributions to the family. We also established that appreciation should be expressed through words, gifts, and rewards.

🎁🎈Today, we are looking at specific ways to use these tools to cheer up and strengthen your wife’s heart, resulting in a more robust, stronger, and happier union.

🎁🎈Our suggestions range from simple, thoughtful gestures of “humaneness” to tangible tokens of gratitude that require financial investment. The truth is: your wife is worthy of all these and more! By using these suggestions, you are saying to your beloved: “I see everything you do, and I don’t take any of it for granted. I love you, and from the bottom of my heart, I am profoundly grateful.”

🎁🎈Seven Suggestions for Appreciation:

🎁1. Acts of Simple Humaneness and Rationality

Marriage is not a “Boss and Employee” relationship. A boss exercises executive authority; even when a subordinate is obviously worn out, the work must be completed. Marriage is a completely different scenario.

Unfortunately, some husbands treat their wives like low-level subordinates. Even when she is clearly exhausted, they leave her to slave away in the kitchen, with the laundry, or with the children, while they offer only shouted orders. This is completely wrong!

A husband who realizes his wife is the “Heart” of the home—pumping life into every member—will not leave her to do everything alone.

The first gift he joyfully offers is himself. He drops his phone and walks into the kitchen to help when she is overwhelmed. If he isn’t “too big” to eat the food, he isn’t “too big” to help prepare it.

Like the man in our cover illustration for today’s Devotional, he relieves her burden out of pure humaneness.

🎁2. Hearty Verbal Appreciation with a Wrapped Gift

Following yesterday’s example, secretly buy a simple but meaningful surprise gift. Invite your wife for tea and snacks. Before you eat, clear your throat and tell her how grateful you are for all she does. Then, present the gift. Avoid making this a sexual overture so she knows the gift is a pure expression of gratitude, not a way to “curry favour.”

🎁3. Practical “Load-Lightening” Gifts

You can purchase modern appliances specifically to lighten her domestic burdens.

Surprise her with a dishwasher, a state-of-the-art blender, a high-quality food processor, or a new washing machine.

In doing these, you aren’t just investing in a kitchen; you are investing in the health and well-being of your wife and the mother of your children.

🎁4. A Heartfelt, Handwritten Letter

Never underestimate the power of a handwritten message. Even in the age of smartphones, the “pen, ink, and paper” still hold immense weight—just look at the Letters of St. Paul.

Take the time to write a deep, touching letter of gratitude. She didn’t have to join you; she chose to leave her parents to help you build a home and a posterity. Place the letter in a beautiful envelope and deliver it personally. It is something she will cherish and reread for years to come.

🎁5. A Weekend Getaway

By taking her away for a weekend, you are saying: “I want you to leave the chores behind and truly REST.” During this time, she is your VIP guest. Spoil her as much as your bank account allows.
She deserves it and even more!

🎁6. Precious and Impactful Gifts

Look closely at her life to see what she truly needs. If you aren’t sure what to buy, there is nothing wrong with being honest about your dilemma. She can tell you what she needs or ask for the cash to choose it herself. This is much better than buying a gift she won’t use (like my neighbour who bought his wife exotic and expensive G-String panties she never wore!). Consult her to ensure the gift is impactful.

🎁7. A Brand-New Car

If you have the means, a new car is a magnificent gesture of appreciation for your sweetheart—the one and only God-approved lover in your life. This gesture, done with humility, can profoundly reconsolidate your union.

🎁🎈Conclusion

The next step is Action. Read and reread these ideas and put them to work. Your wife deserves to be appreciated! And celebrated!!

❤️💕 Tonight’s Bedroom Assignment:
Reread this devotional together just before bedtime and discuss it soberly and lovingly.

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