On a personal note, I’m having the time of my life! Y’all are allowing me to spend all my time with my most favorite person in the world. I’m somewhat prejudiced when it comes to that little girl…my Dad calls it ‘henpecked’. If that’s what loving your wife means then henpecked it is! I don’t honestly think I truly knew how much I meant to Jeniece until all this happened. I may have told you this but I’ll risk bein’ redundant…Jeniece has never been a real lovey-dovey person…you know, all the ‘ooey-gooey’ stuff. Well git back fellas I think it’s a gusher!!…she is so in love with me I’m about to bust from all this attention. It is such a rush to see her light up when I come in the room or help her exercise or raise her up out of bed…all those things you and I sometimes take for granted. Anyway…she tells me a hundred times a day ‘I love you’…ain’t that a hoot? It dang sure is to me and I’m all over it! How can anyone honestly love someone this much?…Mercy!
I was thanking God today for the blessin’ of being the recipient of feelin’ and knowin’ my wife loves me. In my spirit it was as if He replied ‘you’re welcome’. I was thinking about that reply during chair-time. Ya know?…I’ve thanked Him many times for Jeniece…emphatically with a ‘thank you that she’s still here Lord’…as well as, in a ’round about way, with a ‘I way out-kicked my coverage Lord…please don’t reveal that to her just yet’…dumb remarks like that. But I don’t think I’ve ever heard Him affirm her as His gift to me until today. The Creator of my favorite gift just wanted to remind me that He not only gave me Jeniece He’s also giving me all things in life…even life itself. I think I’m the one out there getting this done or achieving that or opening this door or what have you…nah, it’s all a gift given by God Who loves me euphorically…enough to remind me with ‘you’re welcome’.
Anyway…this is a far cry from a word from Him, but I just wanted y’all to know that your kindness to us is the perfect manifestation of the King of kings saying ‘you’re welcome’. I pray your sacrifice for us is returned to you a thousand fold. More than that, I pray you actually experience the depth of your love for your spouse…their love for you…the “love never failsl” (1 Corinthians 13:8) of the Holy Scriptures…and the Giver of it all’s ‘you’re welcome’. Stay close…the whisper is soft.
