Today I
celebrate being married to Bruce for 26 years. I don’t call him my best friend…
way too weak an expression. He is nothing like my ‘friend’, except in the same
way that GOD invites me to be HIS friend. Bruce is so much a part of me, and I
of him. We are each others’ home. The safest place on this side of eternity. I
trust him and count on him unquestioningly, and really consider him to be the
best man in the world – not even kidding. He can figure anything out, fix
anything (almost) and little children (and our children) love him. He is, in my
eyes, the handsomest man on the planet. (With our son running a close second.)
Seeing Bruce enter a room changes the whole place for me. What a gift he is,
and has been!
Today, my
loving HEAVENLY FATHER has sent rain after months of severe drought. This is
twice in my life that HE has broken a drought on a significant day of my life.
And it is beautiful!
In 1988, we
had been living in a horrible drought in Minnesota. Friends had lost their
crops (of course), their livestock, their wells, and their farms. It was hot
and dusty all the time, and we were ‘building’ our house – the one we bought
for $1 and moved to a new place. And I was pregnant. August 7, 1988 Brigham
Grant Stichter was born; ‘born to Jesus’, as I have since heard it said. He
died during the birthing process with the cord around his neck. It was a
terrible capstone to that summer. The evening of his outdoor funeral, we saw
amazingly beautiful thunderheads building, and that night, it began to rain,
and rain, and rain. We saw it as GOD’s tears as HE shared our sorrow.
Rainy days
are by far my favorite days! (With the possible exception being in the middle
of Indiana’s long, gray winters…) So I am so delighted with my loving HEAVENLY
FATHER’s gift to me today. With BOTH of His gifts!
Coram Deo,
Brenda
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