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Good News We Need To Hear

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For the rest, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of reverence and is honorable and seemly, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely and lovable, whatever is kind and winsome and gracious, if there is any virtue and excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think on and weigh and take account of these things [fix your minds on them]. Phil. 4:8 AMP

While sitting at my work desk yesterday, a gentleman walked into the office. He was delivering a vehicle and was finishing up with his part of the check in.  As I listened, he mentioned his wife with a marked kindess that is so remarkably refreshing. She just happens to be named "Priscilla." 

I don’t know exactly what I said to start a conversation, but the name of Priscilla is an easy topic for me.  Since her birth, my youngest sister, Priscilla, has been one of God's sweetest blessings in our family’s lives (we'll all tell you that same story!).  Though twenty one years her elder—Priscilla fascinates me with her ability to be quite the responsible little woman and still manage to have the charm and sweetness of a freckled faced daisy.

Obviously—this man shared a similar styled “sweet spot” for his “Priscilla.”

Turning around to face me, I could see that his blue eyes twinkled.  His honest face seemed perpetually wrinkled with a rosy cheeked smile. “Well, you ask anyone up here and they will tell you that my wife is the sweetest lady ever.”  He then stopped to look around the room and amplify this claim by asking my co-workers to second his motion.  They all did—readily. “She thinks about everybody else first. And even puts me above thinking about herself.  You’re looking at a very spoiled man.”

How could such a profession be met with anything but awestruck delight?

He went on to say, “We’ve been married 52 years and I’ll tell you, we love each other more than when we got married years back. She rides with me on trips [to pick up vehicles] so we can be together. Priscilla loves me for who I am, not my money—I don’t have much.  Not my looks because I’m ugly…” he stopped to chuckle at himself.

From my point of few, he had a seraphic glow in every wrinkle and gray hair peeking beneath his cap.

“…She just loves me for me.  At 74 years of age, I’m the richest man in the world.”

We then introduced ourselves and I thanked him for what he called his “testimony.” “In a generation that doesn’t understand for the most part what to value, I so needed to hear this today. How encouraging!”

This well seasoned gentleman by the world’s classification is just a little old man living in a small town, but in his simple, heart felt profession, he remains one of the world’s greatest orators and is truly one of the world’s richest men.

This gentleman confirmed the scriptures and outlined a living example of a selfless, virtuous woman in Proverbs 31:28-31--“Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all. Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.”

  

Now that’s worthy of praise!