Meet Mr. Smith by Eric Ludy

Author:Eric Ludy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2010-10-05T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

Dearest Leslie

Cup of Loodles Café

February 14, 2007

Valentine’s Day

Dearest Leslie,

Part of me wishes to run home to you right now, wrap my arms around you, squeeze you until you squeal, and kiss your lips as if they were chocolate morsels. But I realize that what is stirring inside of me needs to work its way a bit deeper before I begin to speak it, or shout it, or even sing it. For it is a wonderful thing and it deserves to be brought forth with grandeur and not merely gush. So I will first attempt to write it.

I have guzzled four very large ceramic mugs full of chai these past two hours. Thanks may be given to our good friend Deuce for his attentiveness to my seeming unquenchable thirst. But as a result, I find myself a bit jittery with the caffeine and not knowing if what is transpiring in my heart currently is the work of extreme Spirit-enthusiasm or 220 volts of caffeine stirring in my belly. Either way, I’m thrilled to be alive, and so grateful to our ever-generous and gracious God for giving me the life He has. I am especially thankful for you.

I know I speak these words to you every day, but I wish to say them afresh right now. I want you to listen to these words as if all heaven has stopped to listen in and a chorus of the angelic host is singing softly in the background to make it the perfect cinematic moment. Imagine that these words, even though they hold the identical audio echo as they have always held, somehow have a power to be truer now than they have ever been before. Imagine I take your hand, kneel before you just as I did when I proposed to you nearly thirteen years ago, and whisper with an emotion-laden frog stuck in my larynx, “My girl Leslie, I love you! I love you so much it hurts!”

I have never been a husband to stifle words of adoration, but I realize that I should be gushing my affections for you a hundred, if not a thousand times more often than I currently do. And why shouldn’t I? Why should I settle for telling you five times a day that you are precious when I could be proclaiming it fifty-five times? And why should I kiss you seven times a day when I could be kissing you seventy-seven? I wish to love you to the absolute extent that an earthly man is capable of loving his earthly wife—fully, wholly, with abandon, with eagerness, and with flair.

As I write this, Deuce has once again filled my ceramic mug to the top. In a way that is almost a metaphor for what this day has been for me. Every time I think I’ve finished drinking in the full and complete glory of God, believing that I’ve finally reached the end of God’s beauty and brilliance, my cup is filled again with a fresh revelation that I have only just begun to sip at the ocean of heavenly chai that God has for His children.

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