Although it is a bit late in the day, I thought it would still be nice to join Karla for Thankful Thursday and tie it in with my 31 Day Challenge for today!

I have so very much to be thankful for - God has blessed my life in more ways than I can ever adequately express. But I have to say that my best blessing of all besides Jesus's love itself, is the gift of love that the Lord gave me wrapped up in a man named John...my incredible husband! To keep this post relatively short and not too mushy, I won't go on and on about how wonderful he is and all the many things I love about him...trust me, I could go on forever. What I will do is briefly report what others see in us...together...it testifies to the power of true love lived out in every day life...

It's the most uncanny thing, but it's waitresses that seem to comment the most about John and I - we are always holding hands, particularly across the table at restaurants, and it almost always draws a comment from the waitress like "I sure don't see much of that [hand-holding] anymore...it's so great to see two people so in love." We get that ALL the time...I'm not exaggerating. One time our waitress remarked about our obvious love for one another with tears in her eyes saying how much she wished her marriage could be that happy. Wow... we prayed for her. Just last week a woman came all the way out of Whataburger and walked over to our car as we were about to drive off and said, "I just wanted to tell you how much it blessed me to see your husband open the car door for you - you just don't see that anymore." Amazing - the simplest things that are just a "routine"part of our life together seem to really touch people. I told John it was neat that God gave us a ministry of hand-holding and smooching! :o)

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Well, believe it or not, all this actually ties in with Proverbs Chapter 5. (Today is the 5th day of the challenge to read a chapter of Proverbs a day for 31 days)