The extent of the Wicked Witch of the East seen in The Wizard of Oz as recreated in The Great Movie Ride. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
today i took a rest day to camp out on my lovely brown leather couch that is quite comfortable but not used enough, welp, by me anyway… i started with watching Grace online’s message on encouraging words from Rex’s series on Love Languages. sometimes it takes me awhile to process messages. i put them in the back of my head and they stay there popping up every once in a while as a mental sticky note. This one was a ‘lil quicker than most because my love language is not Words of Affirmation but Mike’s is… continue relaxing, i put on a broadway musical mix i have while surfing the internet and reading news. “For Good” from Wicked comes on and the line “i am who i am today because i knew you” which is sung from the so called wicked witch to the good witch sticks with me. i keep hitting repeat. ok, rabbit trail: i love this musical! fell in love with the wicked witch, so much so that as soon as i saw it i wanted to paint myself green 🙂 yup, a bit of an extremist…
so back to the song, of course it reminds me of all the people who i’ve come into contact with that have influenced me. the people i meet are some of my greatest assets, shaping and changing who i am. constantly. i wouldn’t take any of them out of my life. especially one. Who has shaped my adult life more than anyone else. he is probably my unsung hero. every once in a while i’ll give a flippant post about how great he is… he is kinda easy to take for granted. i don’t express enough how great he is, which is sad because as i already mentioned one of his love languages is words of affirmation. after today’s message i decided i would be more intentional in this area then when i heard this song, it hit me Mike Ries has had a HUGE (DID I SAY BIGGER THAN ANYONE ELSE I KNOW??) impact on my life. you might say duh, sherlock he is your husband. He has opened my eyes to so many things, not just what a healthy relationship looks like either… The example i’m going to mention here has to do with what i was listening to. yup. He introduced me to my first Broadway musical: Les Miserable then continued with taking me to see A Christmas Carol. Every Christmas we watch the musical “Scrooge”…. i’ve seen this so many times that i can sing most of the songs VERBATIM!! that’s impressive for a person who makes up the words to most songs regardless of how many times she’s heard them cause i can’t remember it no matter how hard i try… i didn’t see Wicked with Mike but i did see it with his sister 🙂 in fact most of the musicals/plays/operas i’ve seen have been with mike or his family. and im in love with Broadway… it’s a good thing i can’t act or sing cause i might try to run away and join a musical… i totally think i’d make an awesome green witch!!! ok so this is but just ONE example and because of him my world is better and broader… i really wouldn’t want to imagine life without him. “because i knew you i have been changed for good….” now i just have to take this song off of repeat before he gets home…
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