Loved enough to fight for
Last Friday night Julie and I were out at an outdoor mall area in Orlando. On one of our stops I stayed in the car while Julie went into a store. I was people watching while she was inside. In particular I was noting a bunch of teenage kids who were all over the sidewalk. A bunch of them were being goofy and acting weird. A few were intentionally getting in people’s way…harassing them. At that point it occurred to me that Julie was going to have to walk through the middle of them to get back to the car. I had no sooner thought that, when I saw Julie coming my direction. I turned the key off and had my hand on the door handle watching to see what was going to happen…ready to jump out to her rescue if needed. Thankfully they ignored her as she walked by.
When she got in the car, I let her know what had been going on, and what I had been prepared to do. She told me that her whole life before meeting me she had always wanted the guys she dated to be willing to defend her…to fight for her if necessary. She didn’t want them to have to fight…she just wanted to know that they would. She wanted to know that she was valuable enough to be fought for.
Julie…you are very deeply loved. Yes, you are very valuable to me. Yes, I will defend you. Yes, I will fight for you if necessary. I’m glad it wasn’t necessary last week. But know this…your husband was and is ready to do battle for you.
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The Realm of the Verbal Processor 
“But know this…your husband was and is ready to do battle for you.”
Only a PC using nerd would write something like this. A Mac users wife would be rockin’ cool to those kids, she wouldn’t be all neurotic (as it appears she wasn’t anyway and you were imagining a threat from some….uhm…normal kids) about people younger than herself and assume that EVERYONE IS OUT TO DO ME HARM AND TAKE MY CHRIST AWAY FROM ME.
Max left comments all over my blog after getting a bit miffed by a couple of my Mac posts. Here is my response to him.