You know one way you can tell if someone loves you is by what they do for you.

Here's Nancy De Maswalgamuth with a personal example.

Several years ago when Robert and I were dating, it was during the summer months before our wedding. We were sitting

outside one day on the deck of my house. It was my house then and that deck was

long and narrow,

when I had people over, which I did often in the summer,

if we got more than just a few people,

you know, you're going to have some of them kind of falling off the deck

because it was long and narrow.

And I mentioned as Robert and I were sitting out there

that someday it would be so nice to have a larger deck.

Well, that's all Robert needed here.

And no sooner had we said I do than he said I will and set out to

build a bigger deck. And this precious man spent weeks, long hours, lots of hard work building what I think is a really amazing, beautiful deck.

That deck, hard work, yes, but even more than that it was a

labor of love for his bride. And that deck has gotten a ton of use. It's brought a ton of enjoyment to me, to Robert, to us, to our friends.

And Robert, by the way, has done the same thing inside of our home, building in closets and just making everything better.

And all of these things I see that he has done with the work of his hands and the sweat of his brow.

These things are all reminders of this precious man who did this because he loves me.

He loves me and that's why he has made.

We really shouldn't use the word create when it comes to human beings because no human being can create out of nothing.

God creates, we organize the things he's created and make something out of them.

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