Does your husband ever surprise you? Not with flowers or candy, but in the way he reacts to something ? Mine does. A lot recently, actually. We are going through a very tough time in our house right now, and I am trying to be strong, but those few moments that I waiver and try to hide it from him, he shocks me completely by saying something I needed to hear or just by holding me. We are not newlyweds here. We have been married for 15 years. We were together for 7 years before that. We started dating when I was 14 and he was 16. So we've pretty much grown up together. I've been with him for the last 22 years and every day is still unpredictable. How is that possible? Every morning he gets up with the sound of his alarm ringing, shakes me as he heads for the shower. He gets dressed, brushes his teeth and then puts his socks on and makes the rounds to say goodbye to the kids. I even now how he will give the gas petal a little flutter as he goes down the driveway. He comes home from work and says "hello kiddos" as he takes his wallet, keys and change and lays them in the basket while pulling his belt off. He pours himself a glass of milk before bedtime and takes his socks off before we go up the stairs together at night. I know him. But then, there will be a moment when he will react to something and I will think "who are you?" Not in a bad way, but just in a where-did-that-come-from kind of way. It's pretty awesome actually. As he was listening to another one of my 'I should do this and try to make some money' ideas, he just said "honey, there are a lot of things you want to do." He didn't insist I pick one, didn't tell me to just do something, anything as long as i stopped talking about it, which of course, is probably what I would be thinking if it was reversed. What a great guy. No wonder I love him. And I love marriage. 

~Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them~

Colossians 3:18-19.