“I will do anything for you!” It sounds so romantic in the movies, like a white knight riding across the sands to rescue his damsel in distress. Although the realities of this phrase in the trenches of everyday marriage are far less glamorous, it is no less noble.
You show me what this means when you smile and kiss me good morning even though my hair lost the battle with my pillow, when you quietly eat the latest food experiment despite your screaming gag reflex, and when you work the weekend for a grower to give me flowers for my garden. You show our family what this means when you load trucks at 3 AM to ensure a safe delivery of our baby, when you go to work early so you can be with us on a field trip, and when you scrub burned gunk off the frying pan so the babies can have their mommy at night. You do what it takes to live out this phrase when you sit in traffic to pay off our mortgage, when you air the insulation out in the garage to protect my health, when you bite your tongue even when you are right, and when you silently do the stubbed-toe dance down the hallway as you slip out before dawn to be in shape for me now and we can be healthy together the rest of our life.
This daily damsel in distress never imagined the chivalry you’d show me when I took you as my prince on the day of our wedding. With the bravery you have shown in this earthly battle, you leave me dreaming of the noble and loving king you will be as we live out our days, together.
