How Do You Make Him Look?

It all started in college. He would call me from across campus and ask if I could help, and I would go down two flights of stairs and out the side door, to see him standing there with his dress shirt.

Smiling, I would give him a hello and then take his shirt up to my dorm room and iron it.

A few minutes later I would hand him a pressed shirt and send him on his way.

A quarter of a century later and this preacher husband of mine is now the one who walks down the stairs. He still looks like that young college guy I remember when he says, You’ll pick me out something to wear?

While he drains the hot water tank trying to wake up to face the day, I pick him out a pair of dress slacks, iron him a dress shirt, and hang them like a uniform from the quilt rack on the wall outside the bathroom door.

Brown or black shoes with these? he asks.  

I help not because he’s lazy or incapable but because I love him.

What color t-shirt underneath? he asks.

As he gathers keys and stands by the door, I make sure his sleeves are rolled up just so and check to make sure his collar isn’t doing anything funky.

He says, Yeah, you’re in charge of making sure I look good.

“Her husband is respected at the city gate, where he takes his seat among the elders of the land.”  Proverbs 31:23.

My preacher husband takes his place at church Saturday night, and he looks might fine, if I do say so myself.

It’s our job to make our husbands look good, and I’m not talking about just ironing boards and straightened collars. We also do this with how we talk about them to other people and how we treat them in public. We can easily give a wrinkled look to our husband’s character, if we speak derogatory words about him to other people. We make him look unkempt, if we demean him in public.

As wives, we have a role to play in making sure our men look respectable when they leave the house.

Are you making a rich contribution to the respect your husband gets in his public life?

Do you contribute to the respect your husband gets in public? @McSweeney @Christy_Fitz
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