My Best Half

Most of you know my wife, Brenda, so you know what the title means.  Of all the decisions I have ever made, and over 62 years, that’s more than a few, the best was to ask Brenda to be my wife.  Foolishly she agreed.

Now we are 40 years into this  partnership.  We have five kids, 3 married-ins, and now 4 grandkids.  We have traveled coast to coast, north to south, and in several foreign countries.  She has braved the snows of Sweden in late winter.  She has walked and driven across frozen lakes.  In Australia she went down into a gold mine, and endured the total darkness there.  In Jordan, as she washed her face she saw a wild camel and colt running through the barren desert.

And now I have drug her off to southern Africa of all places.

And the most remarkable thing in all this?  She does it all with a smile.  Long flights, sleeplessness, jet lag, stress of being told (erroneously) that her passport didn’t have a long enough time to expiration. 

She has endured Baby deliveries, and deliveries of babies by her own babies.  She has nursed us through sickness and kept our kids from killing themselves or anyone else.  She has packed a thousand lunches, and cooked about 40,000 meals.  All with a smile.

 A Proverbs 31 woman indeed.   (Look it up if necessary).

Her husband and children rise up and call her Blessed, indeed!!  Many daughters have done nobly, but you excel them all!