Hubby's Guest Post

The following is my husband's offering for my birthday week guest post.  Thank you honey!!

I'd like to take a few moments and tell you about the neatest woman I know.

Her name is Kay. And she happens to be my wife! I met her back in the autumn

of 1992 when my family and I started attending the local church at which her

family were active members. Unfortunately, we didn't really hit it off until

after high school. 

In the late summer of 1995, I was at Fort Benning,

Georgia, attending the US Army's Airborne School - where you receive

training to become a paratrooper - and one day, at the end of the duty day,

just before they released us, they did mail call. And I received a letter

from Kay. It was a letter in which she reached out to me, talking about what

God had done in her life that summer, lamenting the way we were towards each

other in high school, and exhorting me to give my life to God. I read it but

frankly wasn't overly impressed. 

Fast forward several months - I had completed Airborne School, and completed Ranger indoctrination training, and I was out in Fort Lewis, Washington, in one of the US Army's Ranger

battalions. I went on leave (that's vacation) and went home to Iowa for

Christmas. There at the airport was my family... as well as Kay and her family!  

Over the course of the next couple weeks we hit it off, kindled a

relationship... and the rest, as they say, is history! I married that young

woman on January 1, 1997. It has been my great privilege to have her as my

wife, friend, and closest confidant. Kay is remarkably brave, determined,

courageous, possessing remarkable strength of character. She's adventurous,

always willing to go someplace new and try new things. She loves learning,

whether it be history, how to build and manage a blog, or experimenting with

a new recipe, or anything in between.

She's sacrificial, willing to set aside her personal aspirations and desires for the sake of our children and

me. She's particularly astute with electronics, able to tinker with wires

and such in order to make sound come out of our home entertainment speakers

or to make some gadget work again. Kay is diligent to encourage me to be

faithful in my ministry and she is quick to remind me of what is right in

God's sight when I grow lazy or inward focused. She has the uncanny ability

to make friends wherever we go - I often say that people tolerate me so that

they can hang out around her. 

She is able to throw a football and go for a

long hike through the woods and yet she can soothe the children when they

are hurt or sad. Kay is able to calm me down when I am worked up about

something, and yet after 15 years she still finds it easy to get me "hot and

bothered" with just a look. Kay really is an amazing woman - everyone who

knows her agrees! - and I am thrilled that on Thursday of this week I get to

celebrate another one of her birthdays. 

Happy Birthday, Sweetheart! May our

Lord give you many, many, more!

Written by,

Benjamin