I remember my first valentines day with Joe. We werent dating, just friends. I was a freshman in college. I came in my dorm room and there was a dozen roses on my bed with all kinds of chocolates. I remember thinking who is this from?? There wasn’t a valentines day in college I came in my room and didn’t have a suprise on my bed from him. Fast forward 10 years….. Life now is different. We have 4 kids, I pregnant with our 5th and I have cancer. I wonder if he would have still put all those gifts on my bed if he knew then what he knows now 🙂 I think he would have….
Love looks a lot different to me than it did in college. I didn’t have a clue what love was back then, who did? If I had defined love in college it would have been based on the story I just shared, flowers and chocolate. I understand love a lot better now. Now this is how Joe loves me.
I’ve been throwing up for 2 weeks and miserable. He loves me… how?
each morning before he leaves for work he gets all the kids ready for the day so I can get some food in my stomach, he’s done all th laundry in the house for the past 2 weeks. he calls through the day to see how I’m feeling and if there is anything he can bring me home I could eat. Why does he do all this? Because he LOVES me. He knows I’m sick and is doing all he can to help me not throw up. He keeps telling me. All you need to do is get yourself better, I’ll take care of everything else.
This is love. dieing to self for the benefit of another. I can do nothing for Joe right now. I am out of commission. His response has been to do all he can to get me through the next few weeks. Thank you Joe for pouring your life out for me. I love you so much!
Christ exemplified this on the cross for each of us. He poured His life out for the benefit of others. John 15:13 says Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. There is no greater love than the kind that requires sacrifice and dieing to self; as Christ did on the cross. Thank you God for my husband today.
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