LETTERS FROM HOME: EVERYDAY ACTS OF LOVE AND THE PRAYER OF ST. FRANCIS

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Thursday, November 4, 1999

Nov. 4, 1999 Dear Ken, In marriage it's easy to assume your partner knows how you feel. Closing the gap between how you feel and how you act is one of the greatest gifts two people can exchange. The narrower the gap, the more every day becomes an act of love. I don't mean grand gestures like giving diamonds or even a mid-winter weekend at a Florida golf school, though those certainly would be well received. The real acts of love mean emptying the dishwasher so she doesn't have to, checking the oil in the car engine because she doesn't, and reading her insomnia to sleep, very small things that lie in helpfulness, protectiveness and nurturing of the other's soul.

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