The Man of My Heart

A little over 30 years ago, I moved from the Atlanta area to Dayton, OH.  A couple of weeks after moving here, I met the man who would become my husband a short year later.  We met in the Radio Shack store he ran here in Dayton and had our first date a month later.  My sweet hubby will tell you he was smitten before that first date!  For me, it took a little longer to drop my guard.

I had been married for a very short 3 months, a year before moving to Dayton and just didn't trust men at all.  I didn't trust myself either!  Our first date was to play putt-putt golf and then went with some of his friends to Wiley's Comedy Club.  Little did I know that I was very sick at the time.  He took me home and we sat in the car in front of my parents' home for, I'm guessing about an hour, before I was out cold! Yep!  I passed out from a raging infection that was in my body and I had no idea.  Over that next week, I went to the doctor 3 times for shots of penicillin and every night Terry came to see me. 

Over the next several months, we saw each other almost every night and talked on the phone every night.  By the fall I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with this wonderful, loving man.  We got engaged at Christmas and were married in May of the following year. 

In the past 29 years of marriage we have become closer and closer in our relationship.  So close in fact that we joke sometimes that we share a brain!  To say that God joined us as one on our wedding day would be the understatement of the year.  This is the man that completes me and makes me whole. 

I have struggled with my faith over those 29 years and always, Terry's faith in God and how God works all things out for good has strengthened me.  He has been the spiritual head of our house showing not only me but both of our daughters what a godly husband looks like.  My faith has been shaken by the loss of a child, 5 years of not being able to leave my home because of fear, almost losing a second child, financial burdens, the loss of my Daddy and my mother-in-law within 2 years of each other and many more experiences.  But my husband has never failed to show great faith and helped me to walk through the pain and look to my God for comfort.

In the last 3 years, my sweet husband has had heart health issues.  These issues could have had devastating results if not caught and taken care of.  Nevertheless, my heart was aching at the thought of him suffering.  We have learned many things over the last three years about how precious every single minute of life is and we try not to take them for granted.

God gave me a strong man for a husband and he owns my heart.  He is actually away on business as I write this blog and even though he just left this morning, I know I will not sleep tonight without him near.  That is the kind of love every woman should experience at least once in her life.  He is the man of my heart!