This episode is for wives because something happened this morning.

I got out the blueberries.

It's fresh harvest blueberry time here in Florida.

And I had a flashback to how my husband used to ask me to pick him up some blueberries at the grocery store.

But I personally did not like blueberries, or so I thought.

And I didn't even try to like them.

Now my husband's in heaven.

Oddly enough, I absolutely love blueberries.

Thank you for joining Keep the Heart for today's podcast with Francie Taylor.

Francie is an author, conference speaker, and teacher.

She is passionate about teaching what to do with what we

learn from God's Word. Now back to today's valuable study. There's a purpose to this episode,

and it's this. I want to admonish those of you who still have your husbands on this side of heaven

to love them fully. With wild abandon, don't hold back. You would be sorry later for holding back now.

So don't hold back. Love them like you don't get to have them tomorrow. When we found out that

Norman had cancer, we were told, oh, he's a strapping healthy man.

He's going to be around a long time. We're going to lick this cancer. Big talk, big talk.

Now, I realize that in the medical profession, part of their job is to encourage the patients and give them hope.

But at the same time, we took that hope a little too far in our minds. We took it as gospel,

like, oh, these people know what they're talking about. So we're going to be good. This is going to make a great Sunday school illustration. I mean, we were running down the road with it. We were excited, and we just put on our battle gear, and we were going to go in and do hand-to-hand combat with cancers, so we thought. It wasn't very long after that,

maybe a month, where we were suddenly told, whatever you're going to do, do it quickly.

I can remember that my first emotion was shock. My second emotion was anger, and then my third

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