I feel joyful and emotional watching Zac Poonen video for his wife's 75th birthday....https://youtu.be/jOSXjnVMoXU
I never knew how much she was to me,I never knew how patient she could be;I never realised until she went awayHow much a woman helps a man each day;And, oh, I never knew how thoughtlessI had been at times, until I saw her die.I never knew the crosses that she borewith smiling patience, or the griefts that wereupon her heart strings as she toiled away;I only saw her smiles and thought her gay;I took for granted joys that were not so,I might have helped her then but didn't know.I thought she worried needlessly, and yetI see her life was bounded by regret;I might have done much more for her had,I but known her sorrows, or had thought to try.But now that I'm alone at last I seeHow much of pain her smiling hid from me.I never knew how much I leaned uponthat little woman till I found her gone;How much her patience, gentleness, and cheershad meant to me through all those years;How many little things she used to doto smooth my path, Alas, I never knew!