My Only Best One Forever

It's a special day for me, a special day for the most important person in my life. I have told her many times, through the years, that my highest dream in life is to be a good husband to her. I have seen much of her, been married to her for half her life, and I am still learning her and I am more impressed than ever. She is a beauty and a mystery and everything that God had in mind when He put Adam to sleep. I am totally captivated.

She has a grace that she is not even aware of. She holds herself well, one would think there must be royalty in her blood. I think perhaps it is a deep awareness that she is a daughter of a King. There is a fierceness about her - about her love, about her commitments, when she decides yes there is no no. She has a gift for friendship, she knows when to weep and when to rejoice, she has a sense of timing that is uncanny. She has a gift for motherhood, loving and steering and setting boundaries and giving praise and correction in such a healthy way. Our home is peaceful and orderly and full of shouts of laughter and joy, and it is all because of her. There is healing in her hands, and life in her words, and heaven in her kiss. She is a beautiful woman in every sense of the word.

I love who she is deciding to become - full of grace and strength, exploring her own strengths and desires, setting her course by the Bright and Morning Star and sailing fearlessly forward. She is practical, and she is dreaming dreams. Casting off cares and unholy restraints, fully and freshly putting herself into the Hands of her Creator, launching forth full of faith and adventure. She is not afraid and is stronger than she suspects.

Before we were married I had a dream from Heaven, the Lord showed me a treasure map. The ocean was filled with sunken treasures, riches beyond imagination, just waiting to be brought to the surface. The man that held this map would be a very rich man indeed. I awoke and understood that the Lord was teaching me about my bride-to-be, that my job was to discover the treasure in her and bring it out. If you knew her, you would say I must have been a smashing success. Yes indeed, to date, but there is more. There is so much more. Let me be the friend that helps her become, let my love be the fire that warms her heart and lights her way, let me be the partner that brings all her hidden treasures to light.