God designed marriage as a mini-drama of the relationship between Christ and the church. This is an important reason for those of us who are husbands to love our wives extravagantly. I am glad for this opportunity to publicly proclaim the virtues of my sweet wife in acrostic form (the first 6 and 1/2 lines begin with successive letters of the alphabet):
Always bold, calmly dynamic
Ever-flowing, grace-hysteric
Increasing joy, kindly lavish
Majestic, novel, original, practiced
Quiet resounding silent tact
Unyielding, valorous, wild xarismatik
Your zealous love for me and Jake
All the words of the alphabet take
To summarize and celebrate
Happy mother’s day from your happy mate!
Mother’s Day, 2005