September 8, 2008
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My wife is incredible!
Have I mentioned lately how awesome my wife Bev is? Let me give you an example from today.
Saturday I spent the main part of my day with my Dad. If you’re coming in late, he has no short term memory from a bout with encephalitis a few years ago. It’s tough on my step-mother, so the seven of us kids rotate taking him each weekend for several hours so she can get a break from day-to-day concerns.
Anyway, it’s about an hour ride each way to get him, and I like taking Ellie along. This time she rode laying in the back behind the seat. At one point, I noticed that it looked like she may have thrown up, but she was cleaning up after herself (2 Peter 2:22).
A little later, I looked back to see that, much to my dismay, she’d thrown up all over the back seat! 
If you’ve been following the weather in the northeast, we had incredible amounts of rain yesterday, so cleaning up the mess wasn’t going to happen Saturday. Today’s Sunday, so we try not to do too many big projects.
This was when my precious wife says, “I’ll clean it up tomorrow. You can take my car to work.”
It’s not just that she’s saving me from an unpleasant job. I mean, I appreciate that. But here’s the deal. This is the car that I usually drive. I chose to take Ellie with me. Bev had nothing to do with that. But she willingly and without hesitation volunteered to do an icky job for no earthly reason.
Bev is my hero. She has all the qualities I wish I did. She has an amazing servant’s heart. She doesn’t do things just for the pat on the back. Everyone likes recognition for their work, and she’s no different; but that’s not the motivation for the way she serves. I’ve said before that if it weren’t for her, we’d live in a cardboard box under a bridge.
I’m the outgoing, loud and sometimes obnoxious one in our relationship. I’m the pastor, so I get to stand up front where people applaud and then say I did a good job (or that I didn’t). But she’s the engine that makes things go.
I love Bette Middler’s song “You Are the Wind Beneath My Wings” because it reminds me of Bev. It’s probably cold in my shadow sometimes, but the truth is that she’s the better of us two.
Comments (6)
that is so sweet. it’s refreshing to read good things about a good marriage.
A good wife is someone to treasure. I am glad I waited for mine!
Very sweet. Be sure she reads it!
awww awesome post.
Awww- that’s so sweet.
Bev sounds like a sweetie and a very Godly woman!
hehe cool!