My Wife! Thanks Mom!

My honest opinion? Really you want my honest opinion? No you don’t. You do? Really? Ok if you want my honest opinion then here it is.

I am madly in love with my wife. She continues to astound me at every level. Seriously! The greatest single gift I think a wife can give her husband is an intimate personal walking relationship with Jesus. As those who ask for relationship advice, marital counseling, or personal refinement in their world they have heard me say this before. You must spend time with Jesus to know his heart, hear his plans, and walk in the Spirit. My wife gets up every morning at 5:00 a.m. when I go to work out and spends two hours in the word and prayer. She writes notes, may send a few encouraging texts or notes (I receive them often). She storms the gates of heaven and cries out for God to lead us, guide us, and help us as we live for Him. I know that my wife walks with Christ. She doesn’t just wing it, fake it, talk about it, or hope it happens. No she makes it happen. She has found the balance between legalism and laziness. The reason I know this is because I see it and experience it. Her faith is growing more and more. Her heart for people, neighbors, family, and others keeps swelling and swelling. How she confesses sin, embraces life, and hopes in Christ is amazing. For a wife to be strong enough to fight for the kingdom and humble enough to confess her sin is to be admired. She continually tells me where God is working on her and changing her. To which I say, “How?” “How can he keep working in that area you have grown so much.” But to her the measuring stick isn’t other ladies, moms, culture or the flesh but Christ and Christ alone. This I say Thanks Wife!

Oh many of men may wish to write these things about their spouses but I get to with great confidence and purity. Prin, thank you for being a living example of righteous living and Godly woman.

This walk with Christ then pours her life out for our boys (Jayk and Judah). The prayer, guidance, training, and love is steady, strong, consistent, and full. My wife is carrying a huge role in training my boys in righteousness, faith, and courage. How she prays for them, over them, corrects them, and is patient with them only comes by clinging to Jesus. We believe God has something great for our boys. You want to know what it is---here it is…to know Jesus. That’s it…That’s is what our greatest desire is for our boys. I am so thrilled that my wife isn’t trying to live her dreams through our boys. She is living her dream. Our boys may not know what they have in a mom but I know what they have. I heart full of blessing, love, and the Holy Spirit. Any mom can sacrifice and love occasionally. But my wife does it regularly early and often. Our boys will surely one day rise up and call her blessed, faithful, and true. To see their love for her now may it only grow more and more and more. On our boys walls we have one scripture and one saying. The scripture is 1 Cor. 16:13 “Be men of courage; be on your guard, stand firm in the faith, be strong and do everything in love.” And we have “Loved, Cherished Wanted” on the other wall. Prin, I say today that you are loved, cherished and wanted. This is how we love our boys. You are a living example and we say today all over again you are loved cherished and wanted. To this I say ThanksMom! On behald of two little boys that think their mom is the most amazing.

I love you Prin! Happy Mothers Day 2011
Hubs


Here’s a special way to say, “Thanks, Mom!”

STEP 1 :: Give to our Thanks, Mom! campaign to honor your mom on Mother’s Day, May 8.
(https://app.etapestry.com/hosted/AsOurOwn/OnlineDonation.html?page=tribute)

STEP 2 :: In the donation comments box, tell us what you appreciate most about your mom.

STEP 3 :: Download a certificate for your mom that explains the gift you’ve made in her name.
(http://www.asourown.org/take-action/donate)