“It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion who will help him.””…So the LORD God caused Adam to fall into a deep sleep. He took one of Adam’s ribs and closed up the place from which he had taken it. Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib and brought her to Adam. At last! Adam exclaimed. She is part of my own flesh and bone! She will be called woman, because she was taken out of a man. This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.” Genesis 2:18, 21-23
Ten years ago I began a relationship with a dark haired, brown-eyed beauty! I really liked this man; he was sweet, funny, different, and driven. I loved those things about him. It didn't take long for me to realize that I was his missing rib. When God revealed that to me I melted. I knew he was it; he was the man I was going to spend the REST OF MY LIFE WITH! That made me giddy, excited, and joyful.
I love this man; he loved me for exactly who I was. I didn't have to be someone I wasn't. I was accepted, adored, and soon loved by this man I knew I was to be with. I knew he would take care of me forever. I was his helper!
This man and I are now going on 10 years of being together and are about to celebrate 9 years of marriage. WOW!
Though I have failed miserably as his helper, I love him, adore him, need him, desire him, and never want to go a day without him. He is my best friend, my biggest supporter, encourager, and he is my lover.
I love him, I love him, I love him.
I want to be the best for him that he is for me!
I am so proud of who he has become over these last ten years. I cannot tell him or express to him how much he has transformed into a wonderful man of God. He is an incredible child of God, daddy, husband, son, brother, friend, and coach.
He has a heart bigger than Texas for kids and people. I love that the most about him! He is a servant, a hard worker, devoted, loyal, and a trustworthy man, who always lives to please God in all he says and does.
I am blessed. This man provides for us in more ways than I have ever expressed to him. I am thankful!
Every time this man walks in the door, my heart leaps, I feel as though I can finally breathe, and am overwhelmed with joy when I see two little things scream his name and run into his arms. That never grows old!
Nor will my love for you. It will never grow old. I am proud of YOU! I am proud of all you have accomplished! I am proud that you want every student to have the absolute best and that you settle for nothing less than that. (I think you get that from you mom) I am proud that you have always stood your ground for Jesus and have never wavered in doing what is right for Him.
I am thankful for what you have done for our family and for the lives of all these athletes and coaches. You have turned a program around in one year and it is because of your faithfulness to the Lord. Keep working by the Spirit! Keep listening to Him! No matter how many times Satan tries to knock you down, you just keep getting up and moving forward with your armor on. He can't succeed! He is already defeated!
You and I have both seen what happens when people try to accomplish things in their own human effort. Don't ever give into that. God is able to do more than any human could. God is able to turn something around that seems impossible. He is ABLE! No man is greater than God. No man doing things in their own human effort or in sin will succeed.
I am thankful, that you always find where Jesus is, and you go there, and begin helping. Stick with Him and you will always succeed. Even if the suffering is hard and the effort seems in vain, if done in Jesus name, you will always come out stronger, successful, and even more blessed.
Don't ever give into sin, or the corruptness of those around you. Stay strong in the Lord. Stay focused on His Word and the things of Heaven.
I am proud of you. Blessed because of you! I am honored to be your helper. I am honored to pray for you. I am thankful to be loved by you.
I am humbled to have been chosen by God to be your earthly wife.
You are strong where I am weak and I will be strong where you are weak. I am better because of you, these students are better because of Jesus in you. This community is better because of Jesus in you. Keep shinning my sweet man. Don't ever let man cover the light of Jesus in you.
And remember if God can send Ezekiel into the Valley of Dry Bones and bring life into them. Jesus in you can bring life and healing to the things and places that are broken and dry too.
“The LORD took hold of me, and I was carried away by the Spirit of the LORD to a valley filled with bones. He led me around among the old, dry bones that covered the valley floor. They were scattered everywhere across the ground. Then he asked me, ‘Son of man, can these bones become living people again?’ O Sovereign LORD, I replied, you alone know the answer to that. Then he said to me, Speak to these bones and say, Dry bones, listen to the word of the LORD! This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look! I am going to breathe into you and make you live again! I will put flesh and muscles on you and cover you with skin. I will put breath into you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the LORD.” Ezekiel 37:1-6
Jesus thank You for this man! Protect him, cover him, be near to him, use him, and shine brightly through him. Amen
