Joni: Welcome to Joni and Friends, and I have my favorite person here today.
Ken: Who’s that? It better be me.
Joni: That’s right! It sure is, Ken!
Friend, listening, all this week we’ve been posting on our radio web page a clip of the television program they did on you, Ken.
Ken: On me? No, it was on you and I.
Joni: Right! And we’ve gotten lots of response. Folks are really interested why a guy like you chose to marry a woman like me, a quadriplegic in a wheelchair.
Ken: Well, that’s easy, ’cause I’m looking at you.
Joni: Thank you. That’s nice for you to say.
Ken: But you know something, people don’t realize you are as beautiful on the inside as you are in the outside.
Joni: Well, thank you, sweetheart.
Ken: Yeah, there you go!
Joni: Well, that’s right and I’m going to treasure that compliment. Thank you. I don’t get them often because you are a man’s kind of a man. I mean the way you normally express affection and love for me isn’t in the realm of the rosy and romantic. It kind of took me a while to learn your language of love for me, Ken, but I know it by heart now, I really do. You want to know what I know it is?
Ken: Well, I can kind of guess what it is, I know I’m not a real romantic in the sense that I recite poetry to you, but I do have my own language of love.
Joni: Yes, when you bring home from the Smoke House Restaurant toasted garlic bread…
Ken: Yes, and I go out and get you your medical supplies or buy you those extra kiwis that you need…
Joni: Yep, and the raisin bran crunch cereal – that’s my favorite cereal – you always get it for me, bless your heart!
Ken: Well, it’s a thought process: you are always looking out for the other person.
Joni: Yeah, Brawny paper towels instead of the cheap kind… I know you are thinking of me when you get those.
Ken: You don’t like those Brawny towels?
Joni: No, I love them, I do, but all these things we just mentioned, they are kind of small but significant ways that assure me that you’re thinking of me, that you care about the small things, the little details…
Ken: Well, I mean, Joni, that’s my language of love!
Joni: Thank you! Okay, let’s turn the tables – how would you define my language of love for you, because I can’t rub your back or fix fancy dinners with my own hands?
Ken: Oh, that’s easy, too. You’re my best friend and because you are my best friend, you know me better than anyone else.
Joni: Well, then, how would you read my love for you? How do you know what I’m really, really thinking of you and caring about you and what’s my language of love? I’ll give you a test. What is it?
Ken: Well, when you pray for me. I know that you do that, but when we do that together it is even more powerful.
Joni: Yeah, and I ask you how many fish you caught!
Ken: You know, Joni, on the television episode when we talk about the fact that I just need time with guys and you are my best encourager.
Joni: Are you glad we did the television program?
Ken: Oh, I really am.
Joni: Well that’s the one that Joni and Friends did of you and me and another couple with quadriplegia, Mike and Renee Bondi.
Ken: I remember it well.
Joni: Well, it’s wonderful when we have a chance to encourage other couples who have a disability in their marriage, Ken. Maybe it could be a recent disability – maybe a hip surgery gone bad or a battle with cancer that’s left its mark or possibly a stroke or a heart attack which has left your marriage partner somewhat disabled. In any marriage there are bound to be limitations, and this video clip that we posted on our radio web page this week, I think is going to be so helpful to any couple, no matter what the limitation.
Ken: It’s a great clip, Joni, and you know our friends can go to joniandfriendsradio.org and get a chance to see that clip for themselves.
Joni: Right. And friend, while you’re on our radio web page, let us know about your language of love. I really would like to know how you show affection to the ones you deeply care about. And, hey, if the video clip of that TV episode about Ken and me encourages you, please let us know… let Ken know. Just post your comment under “contact us” at the top of the page. We look forward to hearing from you today at joniandfriendsradio.org.
Ken: I’d really like to hear what the other guys’ language of love is.
Joni: And so would I. See you later, friend; until next time on Joni and Friends.
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