valuable

This thought is about showing value. Its about other things but it is also about showing value. That another person is valuable to you. Let me explain. I have always been a very independent person. Yet here I am married to a woman that thinks she needs to watch over me even while she is at work. My friend Johnny calls me about twice a night to make sure I am alright.  Barbara asked him to. He lives in the neighborhood and drives by here several times a day. She gets busy on her job and can't always get to the phone when she wants to.  She checks on me but Johnny does not work at night and she knows he can and will check on me. I guess Barbara also knows how I am, I am going to do some things. I am going to walk out to the mailbox to check the mail. Yes, I think I am fine, but I also fell the very first day trying to walk and make sure I did what I needed to do to get out of the hospital. I am on a walker for a reason, not because I look good in a walker at age 62.  I laugh about it, and I tell Johnny, I'll make sure Barbara knows you checked on me. When you stop and think about it it shows that Barbara values me. Not only does she call and check on me but just in case she gets too busy to make that phone call, she has Johnny calling also. Perhaps God is telling me I don't need to be so independent.  But in a small way it shows that Barbara value's me, I should be as good a husband as she is a wife. Being so independent, I hope I make it another 5 weeks with out becoming the patient from hell.  I do want to get out and even do little things like check the mail, take garbage out, take compost back to the garden area. Just little things, but it is icy or wet or dark or something else.  Believe me wet clay is very slippery. Johnny is a good friend, but he also knows it puts Barbara at ease to know he is checking up on me. I look at it as Barbara values me and not that it is putting a strain on my independence.  God values us too. Matthew 6:26 "Look at the birds of the air;  they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?"    God bless, LVZ.