Reasons Why My Wife Is In The 99th Percentile
Number 1: Two weeks ago I said to my wife, "We have been having dessert too frequently." So, she didn't buy any ice cream or do any baking for the past couple of weeks. This past weekend, however, I completely went back on my previous statement and said that we needed to have dessert. My wife's response was to make 4 dozen of my favorite cookies, oatmeal butterscotch. They are fantastic!
Number 2: My friends and I have been trying to carve out some time for a round of golf. My wife, first of all, thought it was a great idea for us to hit the links. When we were having a hard time coordinating everyone's schedule, she said to me, "I know how much you want to go golfing, so why don't you and I go. I will just drive the cart so you can play."
Number 3: After reading Gandhi's autobiography, I was surprised by his pride. My presumptions about Gandhi led me to believe that he was a humble man, but I found his writings to the contrary. He seemed to boast about the righteousness of his experiments with truth and denial of self. After expressing this to my wife, she sent me the following exerpt from a C.S. Lewis sermon.
"If you asked twenty good men today what they thought the highest of the virtures, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he (or she!) would have replied, Love. You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance. The negative ideal of Unshelfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point. I do not think this is the Christian virtue of Love. The New Testament has lots to say about self-denial, but not about self-denial as an end in itself. We are told to deny ourselves and to take up our crosses in order that we may follow Christ; and nearly every description of what we shall ulitmately find if we do so contains an appeal to desire."
Number 4: My wife has to be the most beautiful pregnant woman to have ever walked the earth! Not to mention that I haven't heard the faintest complaining about the changes her body is going through.
Number 5: I haven't packed my own lunch since school started.
Number 6: My wife sent me a reminder to update my blog so that the people who care about me can keep up with us.
Number 2: My friends and I have been trying to carve out some time for a round of golf. My wife, first of all, thought it was a great idea for us to hit the links. When we were having a hard time coordinating everyone's schedule, she said to me, "I know how much you want to go golfing, so why don't you and I go. I will just drive the cart so you can play."
Number 3: After reading Gandhi's autobiography, I was surprised by his pride. My presumptions about Gandhi led me to believe that he was a humble man, but I found his writings to the contrary. He seemed to boast about the righteousness of his experiments with truth and denial of self. After expressing this to my wife, she sent me the following exerpt from a C.S. Lewis sermon.
"If you asked twenty good men today what they thought the highest of the virtures, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he (or she!) would have replied, Love. You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance. The negative ideal of Unshelfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point. I do not think this is the Christian virtue of Love. The New Testament has lots to say about self-denial, but not about self-denial as an end in itself. We are told to deny ourselves and to take up our crosses in order that we may follow Christ; and nearly every description of what we shall ulitmately find if we do so contains an appeal to desire."
Number 4: My wife has to be the most beautiful pregnant woman to have ever walked the earth! Not to mention that I haven't heard the faintest complaining about the changes her body is going through.
Number 5: I haven't packed my own lunch since school started.
Number 6: My wife sent me a reminder to update my blog so that the people who care about me can keep up with us.
posted by dougsearles at 7:29 PM
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You have a great wife! I wish I could be like her!
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