True Love

  • By Trish Berg
  • February 8, 2012
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Struggling with loads of laundry, clutter in the kitchen and chaos in your life? Stress can easily steal our joy. Trish Berg reminds us to simplify the small stuff and find Joy in the Journey. Dear Michael- After twenty-two years of knowing you, I know not to send you flowers for Valentine’s Day. Not because I don’t love you, as you know I love you more than life itself. Not because I don’t like flowers, because I do enjoy the sweet smelling blossoms. Not because I don’t want to celebrate Valentine’s Day, because any excuse to tell the ones you love that you love them is a joy. And not because I have a better gift in my back pocket, because I don’t. But I am not sending you flowers for Valentine’s Day because you are not a flower person. Instead, I decided to write you a love letter. And I will try not to embarrass you, I promise. I think the world needs to know what true love looks like. True love is not perfect, it does not look like shiny plastic with clean edges and bright colors. Rather, true love is when you live this imperfect life as it comes, one day at a time, with a busted washer and slow-drying dryer, and find the joy in the little blessings. (By the way, the dryer repairman is here, so here’s to hoping for the best). True love is not always steaming hot. Rather it is finding the warmth and coziness within the daily chills of work challenges, whining kids and paying bills. By the way, the furnace is working again, and we were able to pay the heating and cooling bill that came. True love is not like dating when everything you do is fun and games, dinners out and movies at the cinema. Rather, true love is finding the fun within these four walls amidst our daily schedule. By the way, I am making orange glaze pork chops with broasted potatoes for supper tonight, so hurry home. True love is not buying gifts for each other every week wrapped in fancy paper with frilly bows on top. Rather, true love is appreciating the gift you have already been given in the love you share. By the way, thanks for cleaning up the kitchen the other morning and running the dishwasher before I got out of bed. It made the morning go so much more smoothly. True love is not about changing the person you married into someone you want him to be. Rather, true love is about changing yourself into the person you were called to be by God. By the way, could you pick up some milk and eggs on your drive home from work? After twenty-two years of knowing you, I know not to send you flowers for Valentine’s Day. But I also know that I don’t deserve you, and it is always important to tell the ones you love how very much you love them. So here goes…. From the moment I met you, my life changed. In that first glance, I knew I would never be the same. You introduced me to Christ. You accepted me as is. And you have shown me more love than I ever imagined. On top of that, you have become the father to our children whom I never had myself growing up. You draw our family closer to Christ every day as you courageously lead us through this life and into the next. Though true love is far from perfect, it is close to home for me. Happy Valentine’s Day, Sweetie.


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