Wednesday, October 1, 2008

everyday miracles

Last week, Wendy (my wife, for those who don't know me) was the Music Director for a Walk To Emmaus weekend retreat. The Walk to Emmaus is a unique retreat (maybe an Advance??) that combines worship, deep talks about life and grace with fun and lots of emotional healing. She had a wonderful time and it was so good to see her step into that role and to be an vessel of God's grace for those women.

Since I'm usually the one in our marriage who is going out and doing these kinds of things (many years in Youth Ministry, Campus Ministry, Emmaus, Chrysalis (the teen version of Emmaus), etc), it was so much fun ... albeit a little wierd ... to watch her do it. I am a blessed man to be married to wonderful woman like her.

But, it got me to thinking about how well I let her know how I feel about her. I THINK I do a good job of it, but do I? How well do any of us let those whom we love know how we feel about them? Do we tell them we love them often enough? Do we tell them how proud we are of them and why? Do we REALLY communicate with them or do we just pass the time with them?

I want to be more conscientious of letting my family ... my friends ... my parishioners ... my whatever ... know how much I care about them and why I think they are so special.

Shouldn't we all????

1 comment:

paul said...

Yea, it's funny. I used to pride myself in being romantic... and then I realized last year that I WAS romantic... but am less so now. Telling people how you feel is vulnerable... but worth it.

[wink wink]