Tuesday With Karen

This is the week of the wedding. On Friday my eldest daughter will walk into the church primarily my daughter and walk out primarily a wife. Today is the lull before the storm. Tomorrow, family starts to descend for the wedding. Today I will try to attend to my wife. To say that she has born the brunt of the burden of planning is a gross understatement. To say that she has born the brunt of everything is more accurate. She is the mother of the bride. She is the mother. That means she is the one who has poured herself out day after day for our family in general and our daughter in particular. If Rachel becomes like her Mom as a wife then Will will be one happy man. I have great hopes for that since there is no one Rachel wants to be more like than her Mom. It is one of the things I love about both of them. Karen being the kind of woman worthy of emulation and Rachel having the wisdom to want to pick out a good role model. Any way, my goal for today is to look hard into my dear wife's eyes and see how she is really doing with all this. I need to see if she is saying goodbye in her heart to this chapter and if she is ready to embrace the next. Proverbs talks about a good wife in glowing terms. "The heart of her husband trusts in her", so says Proverbs 31. I have never trusted anyone more than Karen. Today I just want to hold her hand and have her trust me and give her the strength and the love she will need for this good week.