the softer side of pensiero

Seeing as how this is my very first Positive Tuesday Post…

AND seeing as how this is the very first time that my dear husband is hosting Positive Post Tuesday…

I think the most appropriate person to post positively about would be…

Gene.

Boy, do I think the world of this man.  I have countless things I really, really like about him.  I have millions of things I dearly love about him.  I have enormous amounts of “favorites” in regards to him, so much so that it’s difficult to post about just one or two.  But I think the one that wins out (today) is the genuine love he shows to me in our marriage every single day.  Pure, kind, excellent, Christian love.

It’s small things, like how he always volunteers to do household jobs (especially the ones I don’t like).  Seriously, he beats my brains out at housework.  I see it in how he chooses to spend his time – I always feel preferred…how invaluable for a wife!  I see it in the way he sympathizes with me when I have hurt feelings or when I’m having a yucky day.  And I see it most of all in the way he speaks to me.  The way he responds when I talk.  I don’t think he’s ever spoken an unkind word to me (I mean it).  Not only that, but he never reveals any of my faults to others.  In these moments, Gene is just like a surgeon – so careful and choosy about the words he allows to come out of his mouth. Like everyone on the planet, I have plenty of moments where my behavior may warrant a sarcastic-yet-half-truthful joke.  But gene doesn’t interact with me this way.  I’m always smitten when I notice that he’s done it again, when I notice that he has taken the more excellent route.

When he’s chosen to love me like Christ loved the church.

I get to watch his faith (in Jesus) in action every day, toward me.  What a hero.  Thanks, geno.

Tuesday is almost over. Be positive anway!