Angela Cari Harris -- My Favorite What!
(Things that I love about my wife)
  1. She loves God.
  2. She fears God with reverence for the authority of His word.
  3. She looks to Jesus Christ alone for her righteousness before a Holy God.
  4. She trusts in Christ alone as the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
  5. How beautifully she sings worship songs, both her voice and also the joy in her face.
  6. Her hair, especially when it is long.
  7. The way she jokes by exaggeration.
  8. That she is not materialistic.
  9. Her willingness to take risks for important things like saving lives physically and spiritually.
  10. Her compassion for unborn children, her indignation at a world that slaughters countless numbers of them, and her zeal to do what she can to lovingly help mothers who are being pressured to kill their babies.
  11. Her compassion for animals, especially if they are hurt or in need.
  12. The great sacrifices she has made to be with me ever since we married.
  13. The mixture of boldness and graciousness which she often uses to tell people truth they need to hear even when it is uncomfortable.
  14. Her love for (our baby) Arrow.
  15. Her playfulness with Arrow.
  16. Her motherly instincts and natural wisdom at to what Arrow needs as he develops.
  17. How she embraces the role of wife and mother according to God's design.
  18. The peanut butter bars and peanut butter shakes she makes for me, and how she keeps our house stocked with jars of peanut butter.
  19. When she prays with intensity of emotion.
  20. Her gift with foreign language.
  21. How she laughs and hides her face when I dance.
  22. How intently she listening and her understanding when I talk about things I'm currently thinking a lot about.
  23. Her packing abilities.
  24. Her planning abilities.
  25. Her gentle reminders about grooming and hygiene issues.
  26. Her creativity and originality in cooking, making things, fixing things...
  27. She loves outdoor activies (except in tropical environments, which I don't like so much either).
  28. Team us
  29. She encourages me to obey God at times that others don't.
  30. SBR.
  31. Censored...
  32. She really likes my writing.
  33. When I come home and she's happy to see me. [Pretending is good enough. ;)]
  34. That she didn't freak out when I first contacted her and said I was looking for a wife.
  35. How she's always laughing with her friends.
  36. Her gifts with music.
  37. Her gift of teaching.
  38. How she seeks to use her gifts to serve others.
  39. Her willingness to reprioritize her life to take care of a child.
  40. She understands how slowly my mind works in the midst of conversation and she graciously and patiently waits through long periods of silence until I know what I'm trying to say.
  41. To be continued...


   Note that the things that I love about my wife are not necessarily the reasons that I love her. That is because I am Christ's bride before I am Angie's husband. Everything I do is (or should be) for His glory (1 Cor 10:31). If I loved Angie for all of the reasons above, but didn't love her for my Lord's sake, then my love for her would be sin.
   Therefore here is a list of the reasons that I love my wife:
  1. Our Lover and Husband Jesus tells me to love my neighbor. Angie is definitely my closest neighbor and God is pleased for me to love her.
  2. Jesus commands me to love my enemies. My wife is not my enemy. However, we will struggle in our marriage, we will have times when we don't get along, she will hurt me, and if I love her during those times then my Master is glorified.
  3. In particular, the Bible teaches husbands to love their wives. Before the foundation of the world, God chose a people who, in Jesus Christ, would be holy and blameless before Him, a people whom He calls His Beloved. After creating the world and making man in His image, God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone... Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." God did this to create a multitude of living dramatization on earth (i.e. marriages) that in shadowy form reflect His relationship to His chosen people. Christ is honored when I love Angie as He loves His church, and bringing honor to Him is what I was made for.