Things always work out better when Kerry gets involved, and the pictures above are a perfect example. I love to garden, and Kerry does not. He thinks it’s much more practical to go to the farmer’s market to buy produce, but it’s in my blood to play in the dirt. So when my huge tomato plant fell over the other day, I was in a panic. I asked him to help me get a stake put in to hold the cage upright. He didn’t respond right away, but eventually said he had a plan to secure all the plants so they could grow as high as they wanted to. So it might not look pretty to the observer, but it is beautiful to me.
Things always work out better when Kerry gets involved. In almost every plan that I come up with, if I were to do things on my own without involving Kerry, the results would not be near the quality or added pizzaz that he offers. He truly wants to please me.
Things always work out better when God gets involved. I might have a good idea, but if I ask God to get involved and try to do things according to what I know is his will, my life works out way better. God doesn't always respond immediately either. I tend to get impatient, not realizing that in the waiting he has a plan. God has given us a great guidebook to follow, full of principles that make our lives so much better—if we will only follow them. If we will only read them. If we will only ask him to help us follow them. If we would only surround ourselves with people and environments that also encourage those same principles.
God really does have our best interest in his heart, and he created marriage as a means to model his relationship with us. The fact that Kerry goes out of his way to please me should be no surprise, because his job is to love me as Christ loves the church. That is a mighty powerful, self-sacrificing kind of love. Not perfect, of course, but Kerry does a pretty good job of putting me first. I can relax, knowing that he has my best interest in mind. Same for God. He has my best interest in mind and wants me to be the very best at my end of our relationship. Of course God is not a fairy godfather that I can expect to grant my wishes. Oh, he is so much more than that! And I can trust him with every area of my life, because he loves me with a love that I can’t even comprehend. We need to love our spouses like that. That is one of the principles that he gives us in his very wonderful and life-giving Word.
He’s a good, good Father!
