As I was driving home tonight, I was incredibly joyous. I had just worked a 12 hour day, I was exhausted, and I had some more work to do when I got home. I had been up since 5am, and it was 8pm when I walked in the door. This has been the norm the past 2 and a half months. You’d figure I’d be dragging my feet in the door, but I skipped in the door with vigor.
Late tonight I asked myself “why”?
I think it’s because of my wife.
Now, don’t roll your eyes. Hear me out on this. Part of my upbeat-ness is, no doubt, from my job, which I absolutely love. But I can’t ignore the roll my wife has played in this. Sure, we’ve had to adjust to each other’s quirks and we’ve had some disagreements, but I’m having the time of my life with her. Sure beats coming home to an empty apartment or coming home to roommates. Sure, I was friendly with all my roommates and I got along with them great. But I wasn’t one with them. None of them was my sole (as opposed to soul…there is a difference!) mate.
When I first walk in the door at night, I am greeted with a long, much needed hug. It is the highlight of my day. Without it, my energy supply to get through the day would be considerably less.
What’s more, not only do I get to come home to a hug, not only do I come home to a home cooked meal, not only does the responsibility of being a husband enhance my own sense of my manhood. Not only do we get to talk to each other about our day(s), but we get to be goofy together. That laughter is absolute soul food, and it is giving me quite the unexpected lift in my step.
Some who have been married longer (or those who haven’t been married at all) might scoff at this: this won’t last. Wait until kids. Then your life will really be over. Or if kids don’t “end your life,” just….just wait. Things will change.
Perhaps. Yeah yeah, maybe we’re still “on drugs” as they say, and we are bound to come crashing down. But you know what? I don’t care. It says in the Old Book, “He who finds a wife finds a good thing.” I am currently enjoying that which I have found and which God has given.
