--The Beauty of Simplicity ~~
-[Spiritual Glue For Marriage]

----"And what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God."
----[Micah 6:8/ NAS] --

----Every morning my husband, Rick, and I sit on the front porch. Nothing fancy. we drink coffee, talk, and pray. One bitter-cold day, we were in our rocking chairs at dawn. I the quiet stillness, my man of few words asked me a startling question. "Would you still love me if I couldn't fix things?"

We'd been married for almost forty years--the same length of time he's owned an auto repair business--and it sounded like he needed reassurance. But he'd always appeared confident. He was my rock. On him I totally depended.

What I had to say felt so intimate that my great grew full. "I'm sorry I should've told you this a long time ago. I admire you. You serve people behind the scenes without caring if you receive recognition. Yesterday, you were at church at 5:00 a.m. to help set up. after the service, you helped tear down. After you finished, you fixed Jamie's leaky roof."

He sipped his coffee and looked out into the darkness. "It's no big deal."
"Oh yes, it is. You have the gift of service. You have the gift of helps. [1 Corinthians 12] ~ You're a mechanical genius. And you're generous. What you do matters. The other day you stopped to help an elderly woman having car trouble. Last night at Mother's house, you put her broken lamp back together."

"I'm just doing the right thing," he said.
I knelt in front of him. "When you fix broken things, you're helping to mend broken people." Putting my arms inside his warm coat, I hugged him. "And yes, even if you couldn't fix things, I'd still love you."
---Guideposts/JG~