My Beloved

It’s 4am and I just tearfully said goodbye to my husband for a week.  In an unfortunate turn of events for one of our friends, a spot opened up for Jack to travel to Haiti on a mission team.  It was very last minute but all the details lined up and God made very clear this was His plan for Jack.

I’m so sad.

I love my husband.  I not only love my husband, I actually like him.  Like, like him and he is my best friend.  This week marks 18 years since we met and there have actually been few times where I haven’t liked him.

I am so lucky.

My husband is amazing.  For real.  I don’t talk about him enough.

I have a man who prays over me, out loud, every morning before he goes to work.

I have a husband who does dishes and tucks kids into bed every night.

I have a husband who draws up countless medications before he goes to work so it is one less thing I have to do with Laila in the morning.

I have a husband who reads devotions and prays with our boys every night.

I have a husband who is raising up boys who will be amazing fathers and turn into amazing husbands because they have a beautiful Christlike example to follow on a daily basis.

I have a husband who can’t resist the plea of one tiny little girl who begs him to lay in her bed and snuggle her every night.

I have a husband who can tease his lovely teenage daughter but also dries her tears when she is so misunderstood by others.

I have a husband who is willing to follow the call of the Lord even when he has his own tears and is so worried about leaving us.

So….. I’ve been saying that I’m jealous of him this week.  We have such a heart for missions and we used to go on trips and plan trips for people and travel and adventure and see beautiful people from other countries and share God with them……. together.  But as I sit here and focus on Jack and our life and our little mission field here in our home that God surprised us with….. I’m just happy for him.

Thanks for walking with me as I counted my blessings this morning.  It helped :)

Please keep the whole Haiti team in your prayers this week.

Matthew 28:19-20 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”