Praying for safe travel

Of course there are the obvious reasons why:

• loving you so deeply
• missing you so much when you're gone and wanting you to return safely home to me
• not knowing how I would live without you.

Then there is this set:

• our relationship has been and continues to be affected by many frustrations, yet it would devastate me to not continue to resolve them 
• as much as I love you, I feel as if I'm only beginning to learn to love you, as if we're only starting to discover how to be in this relationship together
• loving each other more selflessly is one important way we're each called to become the best version of ourselves, and we aren't there yet
• we have so much to learn, and our life together is going to keep getting better as we learn to love each other more fully

That second set may not seem as traditionally romantic as the first set, which probably represents more closely the words every wife would want to hear from her husband.  But it's the second group that describes more closely how it is that I approach each day with you, together or apart, as a chance for us to grow in God's love.  This goes way beyond merely wanting you home so that we can get back to "spending the rest of our lives together," as if we aspired no more highly than to simply pass our time together.