Enjoy!!!

When I grew up we moved quite often and I ended up never attending the same school over two years. Consequently I did not develop any lifelong friendships. After school and my bad years I got married and started my career. My references and education were not exactly stellar and I had to work long difficult hours in order to get ahead. Raising a young family and spending time with them left little leisure time available to spend developing friendships.

My kids played every sport and attending all of those games and as many practices as feasible left my head spinning trying to juggle it in with my difficult career. (When I started my own businesses I often worked twenty hours a day, six days per week literally.)

I met some friends at church, but had little time to devote to anything but the main service and did not serve on committees and the like and I could not be at church every time the doors were open like many people that I knew. Additionally after my kids finished up with college and began their careers, we moved to Florida and began keeping multiple residences which meant attending multiple churches which compounded the problem of developing deep and lasting friendships.

As a result most of my friends today are related somehow to my kids, the churches that I have attended, or my career. My kids on the other hand have tons of friends. They lived in the same house all of the way through high school and still live in Atlanta and have friends that they met when they were nine and ten years old that still hang out together. I think that it would be marvelous to have deep lifelong friends.

I was lamenting the fact that I do not have any lifelong friends the other day and I happened to remember that I do have a lifelong friend, my wife. We will have been married 39 years this December. Aside from Jesus Christ no one in the world means more to me. She is the absolute best I tell you.

The Bible states that a good wife is a blessing from God, (I am using wife here, but I am certain the same could be said of husbands thus one could insert wife/husband anywhere it states wife).

I believe that statement with all of my heart. Consider Proverbs 31:10 “A truly good wife is the most precious treasure a man can find!” If you continue reading Proverbs you can see the descriptions and qualities:
– her husband depends on her
– she never lets her husband down
– she is good to her husband every day of her life
– she is hard-working
– she invests wisely
– she helps the poor and needy
– she is prepared for every season
– her husband is respected
– her words are sensible and her advice is thoughtful
– she takes care of her family and her servants
– her children and husband are proud of her
In Proverbs 18:22 it states: “A man’s greatest treasure is his wife– she is a gift from the LORD.”

I can honestly say that the above describes my wife, (with the possible exception of being sensible and thoughtful – Just kidding). Seriously I love my wife as much as one human being can love another. We are one.

There is no doubt in my mind that she is a gift from God and was put into my life by Jesus Christ. She has been my anchor and has kept, (and continues to keep), me on a more sane path when my crazy wild side, (no doubt urged on by satan himself), tugs at me and tries to sink me.

One thing I see missing in so many marriages today is that they don’t enjoy each other. I have some advice for you: Enjoy being with your wife or husband. So much of the petty arguments are just… well, petty arguments. All of that nonsense does is steal “time” and that is one precious and irreplaceable commodity.

Again: Enjoy being with your wife or husband!

Ecc 9:9
Life is short, and you love your wife, so enjoy being with her. This is what you are supposed to do as you struggle through life on this earth.