Wednesday, June 10, 2020

my 365 day commitment

I believe that one of the best ways to honor a commitment is to build strong and disciplined habits. I feel as if a commitment is flakey unless you don't do something about it on a daily basis.

When I first started dating Rach - I was scared to be 7 hours apart from her for an entire year. I knew she was going to be the one, but I felt like there was something that I had to commit to in order to show her how much I loved her.

Last May (2019) I was mowing my grandparents yard and the whole time I was thinking about Rach because we had just spent the weekend together and I had asked her to be my girlfriend. But while I was mowing, I heard God's voice more clear than I ever have before. I had heard him tell me that if I wrote her 365 letters that I was going to marry her.

I was in.

The only person I told about it was my brother and he thought it seemed pretty legit. So that day, I went home and wrote her letter number 1. Now the original plan was to propose on the day I wrote the 365th letter - but honestly, I couldn't wait that long.

Writing Rach a letter every morning was one of the things that really helped us get through the distance. We were both extremely busy so it wasn't like we got to talk all the time, and some months we only got to see each other for one weekend. To me, writing a letter to Rach was my 10 minute date with her every day.

This morning I wrote her 365th letter. What a ride it has been. I don't think I've ever done anything that helped me truly commit to something more than this. 365 days. Never skipped one. It didn't matter what city I was in, what country, or how tired I was. I wrote every day for a year and it has been one of the greatest decisions I have ever made.

If you are having trouble committing to someone or something, my encouragement for you is to find a way to honor that commitment through your actions and discipline. You don't have to write 365 letters...you don't have to do anything extreme, you just have to find something that works for you. Because I guarantee you. Without that commitment to Rach, our long-distance relationship would've been so much harder than what it actually was.

I'll leave you with this. Make a commitment today. A commitment for your heart and your mind. A selfless commitment. Don't get into this just so you get something in return. We have to make commitments for our own hearts.

Writing Rach for 365 days led me to one of the greatest commitments I have ever made and that is to love her more every day for the rest of my life.

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