Shout out

Okay, I have to take a brief moment and brag on my husband.  For those of you who gag at the slightest cheesy love fest like I do when I open the refrigerator door please save yourself the misery and skip this post.  Otherwise enjoy as I give a proper shout out (that’s what the cool kids say, right?) to the daddy-to-be.  Although we haven’t been far along in this journey, I have been so thankful for John during this process. Every morning the first thing he says to me, before he even opens his eyes, is “how are you feeling”?  I truly don’t know what I would do without him.    Despite his willingness to bring me food while I lay lifelessly in the bed, his well-intentioned head pats as I throw-up in my bedside trashcan, or his sweet and encouraging remarks, I believe I am mostly thankful for his sense of humor.  Through all of these scary adjustments, aches, pains, discomforts, and fears, he has kept me laughing.   I just love him so much and am incredibly grateful to have him as a partner, friend, and husband (and comedian)! 

 ²¹ Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

 ²² Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. ²³ For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. ²⁴ Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
 ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her ²⁶ to make her holy, cleansing^[a] her by the washing with water through the word, ²⁷ and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. ²⁸ In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹ After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— ³⁰ for we are members of his body. ³¹ “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”^{[b] 32} This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. ³³ However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Ephesians 5:21-33