Ian & Jocelyn Barker

She’s now 23.

We went to Chipotle for dinner and then went to Sam’s Club to get a little birthday cake for her. We went to pay and it dawned on me that we went to Sam’s Club, the place where you get big stuff, in order to buy a little cake. I felt like we should be getting a cake to feed 20, but we were getting one to feed 2. Ironic.

We’re going out on Friday for a bigger celebration with a gift certificate to a super sweet expensive restaurant down on the Plaza. Belated wedding gift – long story. We’re pretty stoked because super sweet expensive restaurants are not places we frequent very often.

I want to give space to brag on Jocelyn. She’s my wife, so of course I think she’s beautiful, funny, caring, fun, smart, cute, creative, spiritual (in the earth connected kind of way), loving, and just all around cool.

But what I like about her today is her hunger for justice and righteousness. She has a hatred of things that are evil, which is rare on the earth.

She is not loud about it, nor is she about to go and join Greenpeace. Yet in her quiet and subtle way, she loves righteousness and hates sin. It’s like it hurts her. I suppose that’s because it actually does.

So my beautiful wife, thanks for keeping that standard in your heart and provoking my dull heart to strive for truth and righteousness. And thank You Lord for giving me a woman such as her.