I can’t put my finger on why it is exactly, but my husband always lifts my spirit and makes my day. Literally, I could be having the worst day in the history of worst days, and all I need is a little dose of the hubs. On the happiest, brightest of days, he still manages to make it that much better and brighter. He just lifts me up.

Of course there are a million reasons I could think of for why this is, but I don’t think any single one of them is the reason. For starters though, I just adore him. He is the most handsome, sweet, sensitive, talented, thoughtful, kind, gentle, patient guy I know. And that is just getting started. No matter what the situation, he somehow manages to keep calm and ease his way through to a solution. When I am all worked up and worried, he is my composed counterpart. If I’m sad, he makes me smile. When I need a laugh, he never fails. He’s always the perfect complement to me.

Whether it’s an email, text message, phone call, note, or his actual presence, there is something about him that is like a shot of adrenaline to me. Suddenly a smile creeps across my face, and I feel like I can take on the world. If I am down, my strength feels renewed. Knowing he is by my side, loving, praying for, and supporting me makes me feel nearly super-human at times. It is an incredible blessing.

I have always been a firm believer that marriage is one of God’s greatest gifts to humans, but with each passing day I get with my husband, I become completely sold out to this concept. Before I got married, I thought I felt this way and thought I understood this blessing, but with each moment of marriage to my husband that I am privileged to enjoy, I realize that I was not nearly prepared for just how blessed I would be as a wife. To get to love someone completely and totally and be loved the same way – that is an incredible and miraculous gift to receive on a daily basis.

As time passes in a marriage, it can be easy to forget just how blessed we really are. The excitement and tingly feelings we once had might fade. Suddenly our spouse is annoying instead of cute and interesting. We develop a negative attitude toward our other half. Instead of growing closer together, we allow ourselves to drift apart. This is a tragedy because out of anyone in the entire world, you chose your spouse, and he/she chose you. Most likely that choice was based on the fact that you saw your spouse as this incredible, one-of-a-kind blessing that you couldn’t live another day without.

How do we go from madly in love to borderline hatred for one another? We stop believing in the blessing. We stop choosing our spouse as the apple of our eye. We stop choosing to see the love of our life as just that. We stop devoting the necessary time and energy to our marriage. We start choosing to allow ourselves to dwell on all of the faults of our spouse instead of the strengths. We start choosing to believe the worst instead of the best. We make millions of choices that build walls instead of bridges in our marriage.

There are few people in this world that can affect you like your spouse. How you affect them is entirely up to you. Are you going to encourage, support, and uplift him? Are you going to inspire, strengthen, and push her? You choose to admire or despise your spouse. You can be the very thing that gives him/her the wings to take flight each day, or you can be the very thing that devastates and discourages him or her. That is the choice each of us makes day in and day out.

My husband makes the choice to make me feel like the most blessed wife and woman in the whole wide world, and I strive to make him feel like the most blessed husband and man in the world. It’s an epic game to see who can demonstrate the most love to one another. The best part is that no one loses in this game though.

Life is challenging, and there are so many obstacles to overcome each and every day, but with my husband by my side, I can face it all. The best part of every day for me is my husband. Awakening next to him every morning is the best way to start the day off. Saying goodbye to him is the worst part of the day. Hearing from his throughout the day, knowing that he is thinking of and caring about me, gives me that burst of excitement that pushes me through the day. When he gets home, it is the absolute best part of the day.

Get the point? God pours out His love, blessings, and favor on me constantly by having entrusted me with the precious life of my husband. That is not something I take lightly, and it’s definitely not something I want to lose sight of no matter what. My husband is a treasure, and I am his. What an honor!

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