Lately my wife has amazed me. There are too many instances to truly name but I wanted to share a few.
We have been trying to reach young couples and singles along with establishing a consistent Children's ministry so that we can invest in the children of our church, especially on Sunday evenings. Jill volunteered to co-teach the class with me because of her heart for young ladies that age and leads our Sunday Night ministry Worship Kidstyle. She works nights and frequently works on weekends. She often works on Saturday Night which means she works 7pm Saturday evening to 7am Sunday morning. She will say up and help to teach Sunday morning and then go to service. She then wakes up and leads Worship Kidstyle. No, I did not ask her to do any of this she does it out of a heart to serve and see people established in their relationship with our Great God and King.
In December, I saw her do something that blew me away! We were going out to eat and I had the kids with me in the party wagon (a.k.a. the minivan) while she was following behind us in the car. She had to work that evening so I decided to "cook" dinner ;). I came over a rise and noticed the truck coming toward me was veering off the road. He then over corrected and flipped! I called 911 (it took forever on the phone, if I would've been in the process of being attacked I would've been dead - but back to he story). Jill then came over the rise and saw the truck. She stopped immediately and by the time I got off the phone she had "army crawled" into the truck which was on its roof through shards of glass and was pulling the man to safety! When the EMT s arrived and took the man we noticed her arm hard been cut up by the glass. Seeing her in "nurse mode" was amazing.
Now all this sounds like the biased opinion of a blessed husband and to a certain extent it is. Yet the amazing thing is that these acts and the heart with which they are graciously lived out are the norm not the extraordinary and for that I'm eternally grateful for HIS placing of Jill into my life. I'm thankful for HIS allowing me to cherish and serve such a gift as Jill.
