I’m not one to shout things from the rooftop, but I’m going to do a little of that today. I just wanted to take this opportunity to do a little braggin’ on my husband. Today is his 28th birthday. Praise God he was born!! Praise God his Momma met his Daddy, and their parents met, and so on and so forth. I know without that perfect combination of genes and God’s beautiful design, I wouldn’t be blessed with the man I am blessed with today. I knew the moment I met him that he was not just some ordinary guy. I was in trouble. I’m not saying he’s perfect – no one is, but for me and my house, he’s just right.
Day One. June 24, 2006. Leaving Doggett Center for New Orleans for Katrina Relief.
Adam is such a good person. I mean, duh, I did marry the guy; I must think he's a good person. But truly, his heart is indescribable. Not only is he already just a really good man, but he longs to be an even better man. If you know Adam at all, you know he is an extremely hard worker. He strives to do fair and honest business, and his biggest motivator for working so hard is to help people. He wants business to be successful not so we can roll around in piles of money, but so that we can help other people. He’s already done so many things to lend a helping hand to those in need, but he’d never tell you about them. He’s not so big on talking about the good things he does. He just does them. He’s not going to tell you about the people he’s helped, he’s going to be quietly figuring out how to help the next person. He’s not going to talk about the hard day he’s had or the person who’s done him wrong; he’s going to figure out how to make the next day better. My husband is a doer. I love that about him. His quiet strength and unspoken drive is one of the things I admire most about Adam.
One of my favorite things about my husband is the fact that he is such a dreamer. He never stops dreaming. Ever. He is always thinking about where he feels God is leading our family, and makes action plans for how to get us there. This man does not sit back and wait for something to happen to get us closer to our dreams, he wakes up every day and busts his [sexy] butt trying to make it happen. I’ve never known anyone so driven and motivated in my life. When he asked me to marry him, he asked me to join him on the adventure of a lifetime. He wasn’t kidding. I truly feel that our life is an adventure. It may not seem like it from the outside looking in, but it sure does feel like it from the inside looking out, and that’s all that matters. His adventurous spirit, dreaming heart, and brilliant mind make me fall in love with him over and over again.
When we got married, I had his wedding band inscribed with ‘Ephesians 5:21-33’. The passage states:
21 Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ. 22 Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church, the body of which he is the Savior. 24 Just as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives ought to be, in everything, to their husbands. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26 in order to make her holy by cleansing her with the washing of water by the word, 27 so as to present the church to himself in splendor, without a spot or wrinkle or anything of the kind—yes, so that she may be holy and without blemish. 28 In the same way, husbands should love their wives as they do their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hates his own body, but he nourishes and tenderly cares for it, just as Christ does for the church, 30 because we are members of his body. 31 "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh." 32 This is a great mystery, and I am applying it to Christ and the church. 33 Each of you, however, should love his wife as himself, and a wife should respect her husband.
Some people have issues with this passage because in today’s world, it’s apparently perceived as messed-up and sexist to say that men and women have different roles. Well I am proud to say that we have structured our marriage and household around these Biblical principles. Adam and I have different roles when it comes to our marriage and family because that’s how God designed it. A lot of people get hung up on ‘wives, be subject to your husbands’ and forget the beauty of the rest of this prescription for a healthy marriage. I could go on about this, but my point is that I am so proud, and so blessed to have Adam as my husband, my partner, and the head of my household. He is constantly seeking to be closer to Christ, often with the motivation of yearning to be better for me and our daughter. I trust him completely and love him wholly. I’ll follow Adam to the ends of the Earth if that’s where he feels led.
January 3, 2009. Just going to lunch...JK, it was our wedding day.
Not only is Adam a wonderful person and husband, but I have loved watching him turn into a wonderful father. I’m not sure anything else fills my heart with joy more than seeing him love her, and seeing her love him. I often get a little teary when those two are playing or sharing little moments. It’s like when they’re together, the love in my heart is too much to fit, so it has to pour out in the form of warmth and tears. I can’t really describe it. Also, fatherhood is just plain sexy.
So Adam, I hope you feel well-celebrated today. I hope you don’t mind that I bragged on you a little bit. I love you…big-time.
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