It seems perfectly fitting that Brad shares a birthday with my Mom, he continues a lot of her work in my life and they both have love me well. I love that they have the same birthday :)
Brad is my favorite person...he is also the only one out of these three people who loved me out of choice and not birth!
He was telling me just the other day that he feels like I balance him out better than he balances me out...or something crazy like that. It made me start thinking about what I really appreciate about my husband
- I notoriously (at least around our house) bite off more than I should/can. If there stuff I want to do, that's good to do, that helps people, that kind of works in my schedule I say yes...I say yes a lot! Sometimes it is it wisdom and I tend not to need a lot of "down" time, I am a doer, I like to me moving. At some point I break (see my post entitled Life). When I am at my end, that man shadows for my silly heart the steadfastness of the Lord, but being steadfast for me. I run until it is physically hard to keep running and he holds me and prays for me when I can't. I don't think I could do much of the good I do, if he was not there, if he was not steadfast next to me. He's the calm to my all over the place, the quiet to my noisy.
- He provides financially for our family and has never once suggested that I start making more money. His faithfulness to the grind at work, frees me up to use my gifts where I feel the Lord moving even if it does not equal the highest value at the end of the day. I am so thankful for how he works so hard.
- He has great wisdom. My husband is super wise. He does not talk as much as some, definitely not great at small talk. This I think makes the words he speaks worth so much more. He always has a way of pointing me to Jesus, which I need. He has a way of helping me process my life, my day, my friends in a Biblical way. He can ask really good question (sometimes better than I would like). Even now I am getting a little stressed, not sure if I should let him read this or just publish it. I lean on his wisdom a lot.
- He makes me laugh, even when I'm not so happy with him (usually my fault and not his!), but I love it. I tend to be a person who finds a lot of things funny, but not everything makes me laugh...he can. I love him!
There is a lot more I could say and I'm sure better ways to say what I did. But I love the man and count it pure Grace that the Lord would see it fit for us to strive after Him, next to each other. I am so thankful for the Lord's thankfulness to Brad for the past 28 years and I am excited to see new signs of His faithfulness this year in Brad's life. I love you Bradley Joseph.
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