My husband

I have a husband who can do it all.

Sometimes I take that for granted. I’ll ask him to fix this, or build that, or figure out something-or-another—and I don’t pause to realize how amazing it is that he has such a wide range of skills.

We haven’t had to call a repair man of any kind in years. If one of our appliances stops working, he can usually get it going again with a few twists of his screwdriver.

When a project needs done around the house or yard, he’s on it. Building furniture, landscaping our yard, installing electrical fixtures, you name it.

What he doesn’t know, he can figure out with a YouTube video or a little trial and error. He picks new things up so easily and remembers every detail of everything.

He’ll change my car’s oil, use the excavator to prep the dirt for our new garden, then come inside and cook dinner before cuddling up with our kids as they fall asleep.

His hands are calloused and usually dirty. His work jeans are always stained, and his cap could use a good scrub.

He prioritizes our family in the midst of his own responsibilities. He shows up to our kids’ school functions and coaches their Little League baseball team. He’s never too busy to play catch or braid our daughter’s hair.

When I’m overwhelmed or unsure, he’s the calm to my worry. He has an, “everything will work out,” mindset that sometimes drives me crazy, but mostly just makes me envious.

He never complains, he just rolls up his sleeves and does the thing that needs to be done. (Seriously—I have yet to discover something this man can’t do.)

He’s the strongest, most capable, most gentle human I know.

With him, I always feel safe. I always feel cared for. And I always know he has my back.

He’s incredible, and I don’t tell him that nearly enough. How lucky I am to have a husband who can do it all.

© Casey Huff

22Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.

25Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.28 In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30because we are members of his body. 31“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”32 This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.33 However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

—Ephesians 5:22–33