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This Monday I\u2019m going to share with you an entirely different side of Lloyd-Jones. I want to give you a rare glimpse into the family life of this surprisingly private man.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Paul speaks in Ephesians 5:25 of the importance of a Christian husband loving his wife. Surely one of the best ways of so doing is by telling<\/em> her, by declaring his love to her in words. Here MLJ provides an admirable example in this letter written to his wife, Bethan, which I found quoted on Lig Duncan\u2019s blog<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cBethan dear, you are dearer to me than ever and I feel prouder of you than ever before . . . All my love to you, my three beloved ones, and especially to the biggest of them . . . There is no one like you anywhere. The more I see of others, the more obvious does this become . . . I would give all the world for you to be here with me . . . Well, my dear, dear love, the best wife and girl in all the world, receive every bit of my love . . . Thank you for your letter of this morning, though I am very angry that you should have been up until 11.30 p.m. writing it! I see that you are quite incorrigible. The idea that I shall become used to being without you is really funny. I could speak for a long time on the subject. As I have told you many, many times, the passing of the years does nothing but deepen and intensify my love for you. When I think of those days in London in 1925 and \u201926, when I thought that no greater love was possible, I could laugh. But honestly during this last year I [have] come to believe that it was not possible for a man to love his wife more than I loved you. And yet I see there is no end to love, and that it is still true that \u2018absence makes the heart grow fonder.\u2019 I am quite certain that there is no lover, anywhere, writing to his girl who is quite as mad about her as I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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