
I apologize in advance if you were expecting Part 2 of Suffering as Christian. In that article I will be talking about how “picking up our cross” might include tolerating a difficult marriage to honor Jesus’ teaching on divorce.
Being encouraged by a recent article by my sister in Christ, Sajithra, I wanted to stop-the-presses to rejoice in the marriage relationship my Father has given me with Rebekah. I present 25 things I love about her. Things that my heart feel warm and things that make me smile.
Rebekah, these are the things I treasure about you:
- You are my one and only.
- You enjoy WDW as much as I do. (Still treasure first time we ever road a monorail and you instantly “got it”.)
- You have kept everything I have ever given you, no matter how trivial. (And that your “chest” would probably be the first thing you would grab in the event of a fire.)
- I enjoy writing songs with you and listening to you sing.
- It makes me smile that you still manage our finances with a pen and paper, long after we got our first computer.
- Your obsessive-compulsive list making. (And the funny memories when the list was an epic-fail, such as the when we went to a District Convention and you forgot to pack my dress clothes.)
- That you are not afraid to speak up when you believe strongly about something.
- Your willingness to see things from “the other side”. (Even though this often annoys me, it brings good balance to the relationship.)
- Our ever expanding ” book of quotes”. (Sometimes I smile when I think about someone finding it someday and wondering what kind of a weird dialect it is written in.)
- That you have loved me since we were children. (And never stopped.)
- Every concert we have ever been too and even now that I feel mature enough to sit in the balcony you still want to be down in the “pit”.
- You tolerate the dumb movies I watch. (Particularly when you begrudgingly find yourself enjoying them with me.)
- You stand by my side when no one else will.
- You are willing to step out in faith.
- You share my love of Pepsi and we have a mutual hatred for Coca-Cola.
- Our awesome wedding that broke every JW convention of the day. (To this day I’m grateful that we weren’t married in a Kingdom Hall.)
- Your fierce, fierce loyalty to her friends.
- When “Dirty Dancing” is on TV, you will drop everything to sit down and watch it for the hundredth time.
- Your self-sacrificing nature.
- Watching you play games like Metal Gear Online.
- The little things that still make me laugh. (i.e. raviolo)
- Laying around listening to scratchy Carpenters albums together.
- That you are a good mother.
- That you are my BEST friend.
- SAVING MY LIFE! Your willingness never to lose faith in me and the long nights spent praying for me when I couldn’t pray myself.







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