The Chair and a Book

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Thoughts To Encourage Godly Living

March 26, 2002

 

THE CHAIR & A BOOK

I watched him work on the chair.  It’s an old brown one with a leather seat. This chair is special because John Henderson made it. John’s hobby was carpentry. John, and his wife Weezy (Elouise), were two of the best people I’ve ever known. They both have gone home, and I look forward to seeing them again in heaven.

This old chair sits in my house in the reading room. It was a gift from John. Upon this chair sits a black NIV Study Bible. Every morning around 5:30, another wonderful person picks the Bible up from this chair and reads. That would be Betty, my wife.

I have great memories of John and Weezy. John was a man who lived for God, and for his wife. He lived during Weezy’s sustained illness, helping her every step of the way. She died, and within days, John died from the cancer of which he never complained. He was too busy caring for Weezy to talk about his pain.

Everyday my wife picks up her Bible from this old brown chair. I’m so thankful for her. I know some of what John must have felt for Weezy. It’s wonderful being married to a Christian. How many husbands have their wives share what they learned from God’s word each day? I want to be a better man because I’m married to a better woman.

Proverbs says, “A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value. She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life” (Proverbs 31:10-12).

The chair and book remind me of something sacred – a friendship with a man who taught me how to love the woman who owns the Bible.

Godly friends and a Christian wife have given me a glimpse of heaven

Because of Calvary,

Rick