If we give your Husband a pen and paper on your wedding anniversary, what will he write about you?
It’s Leke Alder’s wedding anniversary and in this letter to Jil, He tells his mentee about his wife and what makes her special. Enjoy!
1. Dear Jil, thank you so much for the congratulatory message on my wedding anniversary. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
2. I'm indeed blessed to have met my wife. She's a gem and almost on a daily basis I thank God for giving her to me. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
3. I said "almost on a daily basis" cos I'm making allowance for statistical variation, but I'm pretty sure of the average. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
4. I do pray YOUR husband has cause to thank God for you daily. You should work towards that. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
5. You raised a number of questions about her -her qualities; you want to know what makes her special, why her. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
6. You'll need to provide a big notebook for me to write her qualities out for you. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
7. I know she's a beautiful woman. I've heard that on so many continents I'm almost tone deaf! #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
8. But strangely that wasn't the basis of my attraction to her. Sounds implausible but it's the truth. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
9. The visual appreciation came post facto. Appeals to the vanity in me though. We men are like that! #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
10. If a man tells you your looks don't matter he's lying! #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
11. Either that or he's come up with an ingenious way of keeping men's eyes off you! #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
12. If you believe him better believe Obama is running for President in Nigeria in 2015 under the PDP flag! #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
13. Thank God my wonderful father-in-law never used her beauty as computational basis for her dowry! #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
14. My wife is a visual delight- an aesthetical flavonoid to the bitterleaf ugliness of this conjecture we call life. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
15. She is a mellifluous softener of the hard edges of my struggles on this existential plane- my delightsomeness. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
16. She speaks and life melts its knots away. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
17. She's a euphonious bradycardia inducing rhapsodizer to the harsh unpoetic riffs on life's rap sheet. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
18. An incunabulum transported into this clime and time- the bands of the cradle of my domestic tranquility. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
19. Please forgive me if I speak so hagiographically of her. I am a grateful man. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
20. I'm sure you'll want your husband to speak so well of you. Pray you get a man who appreciates your qualities. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
21. My wife is a kind woman, a very kind woman. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
22. She's sacrificial, never seeking acknowledgment for the good she does. Just appreciation. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
23. She's tolerant, accommodating, simple, preternaturally peaceful. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
24. No issues, no drama except her dressing- a causerie of simple cuts with tinges of classic drama. She's talented with fashion. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
25. I've heard of people waking up on the wrong side of the bed. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
26. It's either we've been buying rare beds, or God failed to install capacity for identifying the wrong side of the bed in her. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
27. When I think of her I say to myself: Either I've done something so wonderful for God, or God loves me with gracious bias. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
28. I'm more inclined to the later seeing how imperfect I am in all my ways. We are all so imperfect. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
29. At the end of the day marriage is a relationship of two imperfect beings in an institution ordained by a perfect God. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
30. His grace shepherds the detritus of our imperfections, recycling and reconfiguring them into channels of mercy. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
31. I KNOW that God loves me for the simple reason He gave me this woman. Some blessings are custom made. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
32. She loves me without questioning, accepts me without judgment. It's that basic. I am me. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
33. My wife is my friend- a very, very true and dear friend. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
34. We pretty much spend all the time together. That is important to her. And we're very happy in each other's company. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
35. I look forward to going home after work every day. That's the kind of home she created. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
36. She's a home maker despite her busy schedule as corporate executive. And I love home! #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
37. But I do have my complaints. So many complaints in fact! I'll give you some: #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
38. She forces me to exercise thrice a week, even got an instructor for us. It's a punishment I participate in joyfully. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
39. And every weekday morning I have to watch who I consider the "Oprah" of Christiandom – @JoyceMeyer. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
40. The television is permanently tuned in the morning to @JoyceMeyer. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
41. I know the TV won't cooperate with me if I try to change the channel, so I just leave things be. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
42. Did I tell you about the takeover of my closet? Oh, I was chased to a less spacious closet. The things men will do for love! #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
43. And I have to endure visiting aquariums every time we travel. There's something about my wife and fish. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
44. And not just fishes, even their cousins – dolphins and penguins. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
45. And then the extended family- the lions, elephants, tigers and other animals. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
46. I have been ducking safari vacations and zoos! I won't mind malaria injection just to avoid going to the zoo. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
47. I'd rather go to a modern art museum or a planetarium. I dream of the splendour of sub-orbital flight. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
48. And then she's feminized our home. We now have softer colours as curtains. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
49. But for my Occupy Alder Home protest I'm pretty sure the house might have been painted lilac, or worse! #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
50. Oh, and I have to endure Comedy Channel. And endless reruns of Friends… I prefer Discovery Channel. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
51. She can't understand why I watch reruns of the Bourne series either; or dramas with Angelina Jolie or Kate Winslet as stars. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
52. Neither does she understand my fascination with quantum physics, space and black holes, not to talk of Hitler! #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
53. Hitler fascinates me because of the apocalyptical dimensions of his life. He's an Antichrist study. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
54. But who says we have to like exactly the same type of TV; or love astronomy together? #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
55. But because I love her I'll go to yet another aquarium, just to make her happy. I don't care about fishes, I care about her! #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
56. She does same for me every day, visiting the life equivalence of my "aquariums". #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
57. And anyway we both love CSI, and Big Bang Theory, and Everyone Hates Chris. And I learnt to watch @JoyceMeyer. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
58. And she now has an IDEA of what will happen if she falls into a black hole. (You'll be stretched like spaghetti). #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
59. There are some things of course I can't tell you cos you'll think she over-pampers me. (She does and I'm proud!) #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
60. I always tell my friends – "God did this one thing for me- He gave me a wonderful woman." #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
61. I do hope you will give cause to your husband to celebrate you. #Letr2Jil
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
62. Your loving mentor, LA. #Letr2Jil ©Leke Alder
— Leke Alder (@LekeAlder) September 28, 2013
So you, if I give your Husband a pen and paper on your wedding anniversary, what will he write about you?
Do have a great week.
cheers.
