{"id":589,"date":"2009-10-14T10:31:12","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T15:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"1169489837"},"modified":"2009-10-14T10:31:12","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T15:31:12","slug":"one-word-that-best-describes-my-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/one-word-that-best-describes-my-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"One Word That Best Describes My Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/i355.photobucket.com\/albums\/r472\/barbaramcgee\/DP200801.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"264\" \/>Today is my wife Paula\u2019s birthday.\u00a0 So, <strong>Happy Birthday, Paula!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not only is this a special day for her, it is a special day for me.\u00a0 Today I get to celebrate who she is and what she\u2019s meant to my life. As I\u2019ve been thinking about our relationship and how important it is, I\u2019ve come up with one word to describe my wife.\u00a0 The word is <em>\u201clift.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From the first moments we met until this, Paula has provided lift in my life.\u00a0 She lifted me when she introduced me to a real relationship with Jesus Christ.\u00a0 She lifted me when she encouraged me to go for my dreams.\u00a0 She lifted me when she supported me through college, seminary, and graduate school <em>for ten long years<\/em>; working, raising children, and doing all the things that make her so important to me to this very day.<\/p>\n<p>So Paula, thank you for lifting me; for lifting my eyes above my average existence, for lifting me out of my self-centeredness to looking not at what the world could give me, but what I could give the world; for lifting me through all the times when I failed to be there for her emotionally, spiritually, and physically.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn\u2019t be half the man I am today if I hadn\u2019t experienced the lift of my wife\u2019s love.\u00a0 If you\u2019re a married guy or even a married gal, how would you describe your spouse?\u00a0 Maybe you\u2019re someone who wants to be married one day.\u00a0 What one word would describe the relationship called marriage if you could define it?\u00a0 What are you looking for?\u00a0 For me, the word is <em>lift<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For you it may be another word. \u00a0The importance is in understanding the one thing that most defines your relationship.\u00a0 For me and Paula, it\u2019s lift.\u00a0 She has lifted me and I know will continue to do so.\u00a0 That\u2019s why I don\u2019t just celebrate her birthday, I celebrate the amazing woman that she is.\u00a0 She has helped me understand what womanhood really is, what a godly woman is, what a self-sacrificing, loving Christian should be.<\/p>\n<p>Paula, thank you for the lift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is my wife Paula\u2019s birthday.\u00a0 So, Happy Birthday, Paula! Not only is this a special day for her, it is a special day for me.\u00a0 Today I get to celebrate who she is and what she\u2019s meant to my life. As I\u2019ve been thinking about our relationship and how important it is, I\u2019ve come &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/one-word-that-best-describes-my-wife\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;One Word That Best Describes My Wife&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}