Honoring My Husband on His Birthday

Hello, I have hijacked Aaron's blog to honor him for his birthday.

Today is the 31st birthday of my dear husband, Philip Aaron Levi Mayfield.

Aaron, I am so grateful that God created you and made me your wife. What a tremendous joy and privilege it is to be married to you and to have children with you. I know you better than anyone. I see you behind closed doors, which is when people really show their true colors. You are real and genuine. The godly, loving, generous, faithful man you appear to be is the man I see when no one else is looking. There are a million things I can list about your character that I love but I will narrow it down to three.

Your love for God: You want to really know God and grow in your relationship with him. You love to study his word. You want others to know Him as you do and to experience the joy you have from having a personal relationship with Him through His son, Jesus.

Your love others: You will sacrifice anything to show love, care, kindness, and compassion to others. You truly care for others more than yourself. You rejoice with those who are rejoicing and weep with those that are weeping. People matter to you. You remember all the little details that are important to them. You show tough love too, challenging people on the tough issues to help them grow. Anyone can win friends with flattery, but true friends speak the truth.

Your love for your family: You love me like Christ loves the church, by laying your life down for me daily and giving and sacrificing of yourself. You adore your wife when I am not adorable. You constantly express your gratitude for all I do to care for our family. You never complain when the house is a mess and you don't have even one clean pair of socks. You love being a father to Judah and Judson. You love playing with them and always have time for them, not neglecting them to have time for yourself. But you don't just stop at the fun stuff. You take your roll as a father very seriously and realize that you are accountable to God for raising future men. You are faithful to God's word in discipline and teaching God's word to your children, even now when many would think a young child's comprehension is too minimal.

Aaron, I know you are not perfect and you need God's grace every day for your sin, weaknesses, and failures, but thank you for your love and faithfulness to God. Thank you for trusting in Jesus every day for his free gift of grace poured out to you by dying on the cross for your sins. I know you would be the first to say that it is only by his grace and strength that you are the man that I commend with these words.

And God thank you for saving Aaron and for your faithfulness to him.

In Christ,

Holly Ruth Mayfield