{"id":29,"date":"2009-09-29T13:49:27","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T18:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=29"},"modified":"2009-10-05T13:51:39","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T18:51:39","slug":"dave-rave-7-reasons-why-i-like-my-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/dave-rave-7-reasons-why-i-like-my-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Rave – 7 Reasons Why I Like My Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"daverave\"I like my wife.\u00a0 That may seem like a silly pronouncement, but I know an awfully lot of people who are in love with people they don\u2019t like.\u00a0 Yeah, weird.<\/p>\n

Not only do I love my wife, but I like<\/em> her.<\/strong> I like her as a person.\u00a0 I like being around her; not because I have to be, not because we are legally bound by a contract, but because she\u2019s just the kind of person I\u2019m attracted to.<\/p>\n

So here are seven reasons why I like my wife.<\/p>\n

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  1. I like my wife because she sees the best in me.<\/strong> That\u2019s often hard to do because sometimes I am very difficult to get along with.\u00a0 She can see past my self-doubts and my inabilities.\u00a0 Instead of correcting me and scolding me and nagging me, she always highlights my good qualities.\u00a0 She sees the best in me and I see that reflected in the way she speaks to me and treats me.<\/li>\n
  2. I like my wife because she tells me the truth. <\/strong> It\u2019s not just the truth she tells me, she tells me in a way I can understand it.\u00a0 She does as the Scriptures teach.\u00a0 She speaks the truth in love.\u00a0 She tells me the truth to help me, to be redemptive; not as an angry accusation of my failures.<\/li>\n
  3. I like my wife because she\u2019s got my back. <\/strong> Of all the people in the world I totally trust, she\u2019s on the top of the list. I absolutely trust her.\u00a0 I know she would never do anything to betray my trust.\u00a0 And I in turn want to guard that sacred honor.<\/li>\n
  4. I like my wife because she seeks to excel. <\/strong>We got married when we were 18 years old.\u00a0 We came from a very average background.\u00a0 But the one thing that has always been constant in our relationship is the desire to excel, to do the absolute very best we possibly can; not only as a reflection of our love for God, but our contribution that we make to humanity.<\/li>\n
  5. I like my wife because she gives me balance. <\/strong> She teaches me how to not just love my work, but to love my family; that there are no contradictions in that, that the tension between working hard and being home is a good thing.\u00a0 And she helps me seek harmony between those two things.<\/li>\n
  6. I like my wife because she makes me want to come home.<\/strong> I\u2019ve talked with hundreds of people, maybe more, over the years, who dread going home.\u00a0 Home to a family that will nag them and condemn them and make home a living hell. My wife has always made our home a place to want to come home to.\u00a0 Not only is it clean and neat, but it\u2019s well-decorated.\u00a0 It feels like us<\/em>.\u00a0 That makes me want to come home.\u00a0 As a matter of fact, there is no other place on the whole planet I\u2019d rather be.<\/li>\n
  7. I like my wife most of all because she has made Christianity believable. <\/strong> I was raised in church where religion and pretension seemed to be the only things that we specialized in.\u00a0 When I met Paula, she made faith incarnational.\u00a0 She was God with skin on.\u00a0 She showed me what it was like to trust Jesus, why it was important.\u00a0 She led me to faith and then nurtured me through my early years.\u00a0 That\u2019s a great gift, for which I will never be able to repay her.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    These are the seven reasons why I like my wife.\u00a0 I can mention a lot more.\u00a0 The question in this Dave Rave is, why do you like your spouse? <\/em>Or, why would you want to be married and what kind of person would you become if you married the person of your dreams, or even the person you\u2019re dating right now?<\/p>\n

    Sometimes it\u2019s just good to sit down and write, this is what I like about the person I\u2019m married to or want to marry one day.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I like my wife.\u00a0 That may seem like a silly pronouncement, but I know an awfully lot of people who are in love with people they don\u2019t like.\u00a0 Yeah, weird. Not only do I love my wife, but I like her. I like her as a person.\u00a0 I like being around her; not because I … Continue reading “Dave Rave – 7 Reasons Why I Like My Wife”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}