Husband Role #1 - Lover

My husband is a lover. Yes, by that I mean my own personal lover, but also and more importantly, he is a lover of many things. Shall I list them for you?
He loves
-God
-me
-our 4 children
-our unborn daughter
-his family
-my family
-our church
-his church friends
-his neighbors (real and in the Biblical sense)
-Arches
He loves many more things, but those will all be chronicalled here in time.

He loves with all his heart. He gives all he has for the people that he loves. Understanding how loving can change a person, you understand what a person he is. He prays for people he has met just once or twice to be cured from cancer. He spends nights playing mindless games (Candyland anyone?) with our kids. He puts kids to bed while he sends me off to a hot bath. He gives hours and hours to serve in the church doing what he can to love God and the people he worships with.

I am lucky to be one of the things he loves. I feel it in the mornings when he gets up early to prepare a Valentine breakfast of pink heart pancakes for me and the kids. I feel it while he's gone working hard so I can stay home to raise our family and he calls to say hello and that he loves me. I feel it when he arrives home with a big smile and kiss and arms full of either flowers, or eggs, or willingness to make the salad for dinner. I feel it as we clean up dinner and pause for a dance in the kitchen. I feel it when he bathes our kids so my tired pregnant back can sit and rest. I feel it when the kids are in bed and he asks what I want to do together. I feel it in his warm embrace many times each day.

I am lucky to feel his love, and my hope is that you too feel someone's love and the joy that it brings. And let's all pledge to be a lover, to make someone else feel the life-giving and life-saving power that is love.