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The Lord ripped me out of my not so fine brokenness in South Carolina and placed me right in the center of God's country, Forth Worth Texas. I had recently retired from public education due to "heart problems" and the the Lord told me to go to school in Texas. I said Lord, "is there no end to school?" He said, "this time your the student and you need to learn well!" Almost immediately I met this fine Texian women, who upon our introductions gave me the biggest and longest hug that left me weak and stiff. We became friends, but this women in her bigger than life personality was friends with everyone in the school. Everyone knew Gayle and loved Gayle including me. 

As the Lord would have it, we became roomates and shared a bathroom in our beautiful home on Dragonfly Way. I would hear my new roomate in the bathroom in the morning praying loudly in the spirit. I would find her facedown on her bedroom floor, crying out to the Lord for someone or nation, or our own nation. We began sharing revelation after our own extensive times in our respective closets with the Lord, and through those intimate times the Lord intertwined our lives deeply to the core. We battled through a structured process the Lord called the Abba Journey, where the Lord ripped our hearts even further. There were times during that process that we were challenged by our dearest friend Chiqui Wood who coauthored the Journey with her husband Kerry  "to keep your heart open and keep forgiving! That process intertwined our lives even more and it taught me the price the Lord is asking to lay our lives down for wholeness in relationships. That experience just happen to be my(our) first lesson in it, and we all in that Triad along with Mary Maritz thought we were going to die. Die we did, thankfully, that was God's plan to make the Gospel real in our lives.

I began to notice something about Gayle, whenever I would enter the room she would always turn her face to me and welcome me. Even if it was 5am and we were both arriving in the kitchen at the same time, she would call out, "morning glory!" We would have incredible breakfast times, sharing revelations, or just praying and the Spirit of the Lord always showed up. The Lord began to tell me Gayle is home for you. I said,"Lord I have a home." he said, "yeah, I know, but Gayle is home.

Gayle always chose me, I was always her preference. She chose to sit next to me in school, she chose me to go on outreach together, she chose me to go to lunch with. When we were around other people in her gregarious way, she would always promote me, and introduce me to others, include me in on conversations she was having with others. I asked the Lord one day, "what is that kind of behavior?" He said, I call that honor. Gayle made what was important to me important to her. She taught me honor and she taught me home. The Lord said, learn well student, and I did friend. To me Gayle is a gift like no other. She knows me and she shows that knowing by making me known to others. The Lord said, that is what intimacy is and Karen that is what I want our relationship to be like.

So Danny, what you have in this wife, is a gift from the Lord. She walks in the spirit, she wars in the spirit for all that she loves and all that concerns her. She honors her relationships with a heart bigger than Texas. She is "Home" for many of us and she will be the sweetest "Home" for you, perfectly designed by our Lord and Savior. I am so thankful for that sliver of time the Lord gave me to be lavished in love and honor and to be taught what wholeness in a relationship looks like. Danny you will be loved so well, which is the way the Lord designed it so that you will step into the fullness of your purpose and destiny. I love you Gayle Hill, and I am so honored to have joined you in the prayer for a husband and to see God fulfill His promise to you. This day the Lord honors you by making what is impotant to you important to Him! We honor and love you Lord for you are great and truly the One we make known!