Here is a family
that shows us what it is like to receive the messages that you are loved and
cared for and that you are important.
Once her kids were
in school, one woman decided to go back to school for more education. After
several years of hard work and late nights, she finally completed her Master’s
Degree program.
Her husband planned
a graduation party for her. He invited all of their friends to their home to
congratulate his wife on her hard work.
But she turned the
tables on him. She got a list of the invitees to her party and called each one.
“I’d like to surprise my husband,” she told them. Then she explained what he
sacrificed for her to go back to school. He supported her emotionally when she
felt like quitting. Much like a single parent, he juggled his own work with
picking the children up from school, caring for them in the evenings,
shouldering much of the housework and preparing meals for the family. And
besides, her education was expensive and the family needed to take out a
student loan. “I’d like this to be a surprise party for him instead of a
graduation party for me,” she told all of her guests.
So they came with
cards and food, all of which he expected. But when he learned that it was all
for him, he was stunned! And for her, it turned out to be the greatest
graduation party ever.
He told her by his
actions and by his willingness to sacrifice that, as Nick Stinnett says, she is
loved, she is cared for and she is
important. And this gave her the courage to jump into a demanding program that
others may never have attempted.
You are loved...
you are cared for... you are important. Where love exists there is warmth.
Where everyone’s physical and emotional needs are met, there is safety and
security. And where respect for one another is the norm, the mind and spirit
can flourish.
It doesn’t get much
better than that.
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