Caught up in the "Meme wars" transpiring on Facebook, I saw a wonderful picture of a baby in a mothers hands, posted by my Wonderful Wife. Above it was a simple disclaimer and a gentle request for this not to become a political debate...
I love this woman.
She has the grace to share a point quietly, almost unassumingly..
Me, not so much.
Understatement alert, in case you missed it...
So, back to the story.
I thought " Great picture. Neat disclaimer, clicked like and kept on scrolling....
Later that night, we were sitting drinking coffee and eating free desert at Friday's, while waiting for our kids to finish at our Church's life groups. I said I liked her picture and she started sharing a bit about her post...
I started thinking that maybe I missed something...
This morning, I see comments all over her " picture".
I click on the disclaimer and an amazingly emotional and intimate part of her life, events that God used to help shape her into the amazing woman she has become, drop down for multiple long paragraphs...
I had missed it.
Sometimes my bumbling can be my charm, an amusing distraction from the monotony of life; sometimes it can be the path that eventually leads me to a grace God meant for me long before, when I take the long and twisted road to simply cross a street...
And sometimes, sometimes, all is is something to underscore my idioticy...
Like today...
Because sometimes, I am an idiot...
She still loves me.
Even when I miss it completely.
She kisses me good night and pauses half a second for my nightly "Thanks for marrying me honey. And thanks for all the baby- having"..
" Thanks for asking" she always replies..
She doesn't mention how stupid I am or completely self involved I became. She doesn't pout...
She just kisses me and says "Thanks for asking"...
So here is just one more of the reasons I call her my Wonderful Wife.
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