Sharing from my heart Part 2

Tomorrow January 3rd is my wife's birthday, we have been married for 37 years,and I would like to share somethings with you, how this woman has enriched and beautified my life. On the day that God created Adam, He said, "It is not good that the man should be alone, I will make him an helpmate for him". Knowing where my life was and the direction it was heading, it was not good that I should be alone, I needed lots of help. The bible says,"Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and has obtained favour of the LORD". How in my sinful existence I was able to found this good thing, can only be due to the grace of God, because I was totally undeserving of it. This gift from God was proof of his gracious care and concern for me and over time I would come to know just how blessed our union was.


I have learn that my wife is not my counterpart, but my complement and that it is not her part to imitate men, nor is she inferior because she is different from men, but that a rich full human life is only attained by the blending of those differences. So marriage is not a mere contract between two people, but the fellowship of souls, forming a complex whole.

For it was a result of my wife roll in our marriage, that I come to know and appreciate, how the union of husbnad and wife is a copy of the mystical union of Christ and his church. For a virtuous woman is a prophetic representation of the church of Christ in her truth, purity, and influence. For a virtuous woman has great internal fortitude both physically and spiritually, who alone deserves the holy name wife,within her is combined the ideals of moral goodness, bodily vigor, and holy activity.

My heart can safely trust in my wife, for I have full confidence in her, knowing that I can leave her any where and she will act discreetlly, with integrity while I am absent from her. For I know she will do me good and not evil all the days of her life. She is consistent in her conduct toward me, always pursuing my best interests, in good times and bad, in the early years of our youthful affection, and in the waning years of our declining age. Her love, is based on high principles.

The work of my wifes hands has come from a willing heart and she finds pleasure in caring for me and her family,so I wll let the works of her hands rise up to praise her.

She exercises careful surveillance over all that goes on in her household that she might, guides her family with words of wisdom, that she may minister grace to the hearers and her tongue is guided with kindness and symphathy.

She can not sleep untill all the diffuctities of her household are taken care of. She is not afraid of poverty, she reaches out a helping hand to the poor, she know that having pity on the poor is leading to the Lord Pr. 19: 17.

She posssess a moral force and dignity which arm her against the on slot of unseen events. She manages the affairs of her house so she can have something to give in times of trouble. When the famines and troublesome times of life befall us, she is a storehouse of supplies, she is like a merchants ship who cargo hole has resources for all season.

She is a tower of strength, capable of great and continuious exertion when calamity comes against our household and when trouble come against me, she runs swiftly to my side, the warmth of her present give me comfort, and the brilliance of her person is like a candle that does not go out by night and her influence is felt in all our household

Such a woman as my wife is not just simply a loving, modest and loyal companion, she is wise in her business affairs, upright, and God fearing. Her price is far above rubies; more valuable than precious stones, her worth can not be estimated, I could travel to the ends of the earth and not find anything equal to her value. To sum it up breifly she is the crown of my rejoicing, my glory, and my pride.