[Discoveries] 02-14-07 Happy Valentines Day!

[Inspiration in Your Inbox]

/*You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride;*/
/*you have stolen my heart*/
/*with one glance of your eyes,*/
/*with one jewel of your necklace. */
/*-- Song of Solomon 4:9*/

I asked my dear wife if I should rerun this devotional from two years 
ago, and she said "yes." Here goes:

I just got back from the store where I stood among a group of husbands, 
who, like me, waited until the last possible moment to buy flowers and a 
card. As we pawed through the cards that were supposed to express our 
love for our wives, I turned to the these other men -- all strangers to 
me -- and said, "Who writes this stuff, anyway?"

They all laughed. None of the cards worked for me. The $6.99 oversized 
card that said, "I spend my life at the office, but here's a chunk of my 
checkbook," wasn't right. The dumb blonde jokes weren't right. The mushy 
mush mush that didn't say anything wasn't right. So I finally turned to 
the other guys and said, "I'm going to buy a blank card and write it 
myself."

They were all shocked, I think, but that's what I did.

For some reason, Valentines Day always sneaks up on me. It's not that it 
isn't in my calendar. I even drew a heart around the 14 on my calendar 
to remind myself to get ready, to have a plan. But I keep coming back, 
in my mind, to the fateful Valentines Day of 1978 when it was just a 
matter of time before Kim and I would get engaged and I was still 
working at the florist, bringing home all the used flowers to distribute 
through Kim to women all over the dorm.

It was a crazy busy day. The owner finally stopped answering the phone. 
He loaded his car full of flowers and sent me out into a Chicago 
blizzard to deliver them all. Things went along swimmingly until I got 
stuck in a snow drift in a no parking zone. I got out to push the car 
and then realized I had just locked the owner's keys in his car stuck in 
the snowdrift idling in neutral.

What did Mark Twain say? "Let us draw the curtain of benevolence over 
this scene."

It amazes me, being a man, that we manage to capture any of the 
attention of these beautiful creatures of the opposite gender. Much of 
the time I've felt like Andrew Stein in the movie "the gods must be 
crazy." His mind "switched off" every time he was in the presence of 
Kate Thompson. When my wife asks me what I'm doing, I answer as he did, 
"I'm making coffee."

I get the sense of God's smile over all of this. I'm not sure how we got 
into the path of so much good coming our way, but it hit us head on -- 
and I, for one, am glad.

Be encouraged!
Dwight


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