The Ministry of Noticing

Monday Devotion

“You have searched me, LORD, and you know me.  You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.  You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.”

Psalm 139:1-3

It started off as your average marriage morning, Lisa and I went out for an early walk, then stopped off at a Starbucks on our way to the grocery store to get some items for dinner later in the day.  As Lisa walked up the steps, she turned and looked at me to say something.  I remember the way the morning sun highlighted her hair, and I thought, She is so beautiful to me.

Ten minutes later, I told Lisa what I had been thinking.  “This has been a rather mundane marriage morning—going for a walk, getting a cup of coffee, stopping at a grocery store—but I just want you to know, when you paused on the steps I thought to myself, ‘I am deliriously in love with that woman.’”

“Buuuuttt-,” Lisa said.

“No ‘but.’ That’s it.”

“That’s it?”

“That’s it.”

“Oooh, baby, what do you want?”

“I don’t need anything!  I was just thinking I’m still deliriously in love with you after almost twenty-years of marriage and thought I should share it with you.”