Many
women do noble things, but you surpass them all. Charm is deceptive, and
beauty is fleeting;
but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Honor her for all that her hands have done, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate. Proverbs 31:29-31
but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Honor her for all that her hands have done, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate. Proverbs 31:29-31
You are the most unique person I know. To some people that
might seem a strange and even disquieting description; to some even an affront;
yet to you, the highest of compliments.
When you were forged
by God, He created you out of the most contrasting of elements: titanium and
linen, oak and limestone, maple and sandstone, tungsten and clay, fire and
water, and I would have it no other way. When Jesus encourages us to “let your
light so shine before (others)…” yours burns brightly in a way that warms
others, and sometimes even makes them sweat…I love it! Shine on sister.
I love that you’re tough as nails and soft as down, ready to
defend others and loving the “unlovely.” Your life has been about taking that
which is discarded and transforming it into the valuable and precious; I know
of no other principle closer to the heart of God.
I also love how you love me. It fills me with a sense of
wonder and freedom. There is a piece of me that cried out to be independent and
free of all accountability, yet you took it captive and threw in a dungeon in a faraway place, unreachable by the
mortal body, soul, or spirit to be held hostage until death do we part. Little
did I know, that piece of me was holding ME hostage to a life of emptiness and
ultimately ruin. You continually put on display the kind of love God Himself
requires of his children.
Thank you for loving others back to life, even at the
expense of your own – laying down your life for others, picking up your cross,
and following Him to places others refuse to travel. You are a lamp on a
lampstand.
You are a lioness protecting her cubs. You are a sultry smoking
hot lover loving her husband with passion and grace. You are a faithful friend,
trusted confidant, soldier in arms, partner in prayer, and lover of life. You
are real; the antithesis of plastic. You are organic, earthy, wholesome and hearty.
Thank you God for my lovely bride and precious friend, a friend like no other:
You are irrepressible and irreplaceable,
You are imaginative
and image Deo,
You butter my bread and bust my chops.
You are the French to my kiss and the frost on my glass of
beer.
You are the melody to my song and the spring in my step.
You are the beat of my drum and tempo of my life.
You challenge me to be a better man when I want to let out
with a primal scream and string of expletives.
You epitomize what it means when a husband and wife become
one.
You are my missing rib.
je t'aime forever.
