Things I Love About My Husband
A list about Ryan
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Hello world! My husband Ryan is 31 years old today (but don’t tell him I told you. This post is a birthday surprise for him. Ryan if you’re reading this now, I’m sorry I told them. You can pass for 26 years old, I swear).
As one flesh, Ryan is much of me1. He is my morning “hellos”, my “goodnight I love you’s”, my partner in our holy covenant, my groom, my love. The deliverer of gas station flowers on his way home from work, the morning coffee maker, the humblest man I know, the one gentler between the two of us. Unapologetic in his joyful and loving tears, slow to speak, quick to lay hands in prayer, steady in his love for me, I thought some words here might elicit that bright gorgeous smile, those sea green teary eyes.
We mothers are always quick to delve into the details of our love for our children, but what about the husbands who loved them into existence? What about the grooms who vowed to love us as Christ loves the church, who swore to give themselves up for us, to make us holy, washing us in the Word, to present us a radiant church without stain, wrinkle, or blemish? What about the men who have a far higher calling than we do in the covenant of marriage? Who wake up every day and try again, who face the feat that Jesus faces every moment until His second coming, to woo the bride, to lead them in love, and pursue them until the end of days.
“Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.” Ephesians 5:25-28
Let’s take a moment. An unhurried minute to admire the one whose soul loves ours, the one who God has called us wives to love and serve in return.
Here are some things I love about my groom (only some, or we’d all be here for far too long):
His cooking
His comfort
His giggle
His gentleness
His goofiness
His hands on guitar and piano
His songs (especially when they’re about me)
His loyalty
His humility
His hunger for the Lord, understanding the Lord’s character, feeling the Lord’s touch, God’s Word, God’s presence
His childlike faith
His growing plant collection and his tender hands which nurture them all
His heart for parenthood, for our daughter, a true girl dad if I ever saw one
His tears
His steadfast love for me
Ryan on baby girl’s 1st birthday on film His fierce passion for our marriage
His inability to gossip
His incapability to condemn
His fearlessness in the face of gruesome testimonies
The way he eagerly and faithfully utilizes his authority from the Holy Spirit to protect our home, marriage, and family
His readiness to fast and pray
His openness to worship
His willingness to grow
His creativity
His paintings
His handwritten sweet nothing sticky notes peppered throughout our home and my lunchbox
His joyful support of all my endeavors, of everyone’s really
His quiet nature
His loud laugh
His ability to caretake without complaints
The ease in which he generously forgives and forgets
31 things I love about Ryan for his 31st birthday. Have I lost you, Reader? Do you love my husband as much as I do?
Thank you for how you lead me through Christ’s love, Ryan. Thank you for protecting me with prayer and being the provider of our home, for working incredibly long hours and never ceasing walk through the front door with a smile on your face and supernatural energy to care for my heart and our home after a long day at work. Thank you for being the sweetest dad imaginable to our baby girl. For being kind to all and the safest keeper of my heart. Happy Birthday my groom!
Katie Donohue Tona
If you liked this post, feel free to check out this other post inspired by my husband Ryan being an example of the Father’s love:
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“For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.” Genesis 2:24, Matthew 19:5, Mark 10:8, Ephesians 5:31
Isn’t it amazing how God can give us the person who is perfect for us? I feel that way about my husband, too, but not everyone has that. I’ve lost more sleep over friends’ marriages than my own. I’ve learned God has us all on different paths to help us grow and connect with him.
What a treasure you have found in each other!