My husband received a phone call the other day from the local cable TV provider offering us a cable TV package for just $5 a month. Sounds like a great deal! Well, he declined their offer. The sales person was very surprised and couldn't believe that we didn't want to take advantage of such a great opportunity. Seeing as we didn't have any current TV package he thought the $5 a month price was unbeatable. Jake explained to him it wasn't that the price was too high it was that he didn't want to watch TV. Again the sales person thought that for $5 a month it was irresistible. Jake resisted.
Here's why.
A few years ago Jake and I decided to get rid of our cable TV. We had only been married a short time and we found that more evenings than not we ended up sitting in front of the television together yet apart. It's true we were side by side maybe even holding hands but we weren't paying attention to each other. We weren't engaging one another in conversation, and we weren't challenging each other to grow, to reach out, to become involved in the world around us. We were simply existing until it was time to go to bed.
After choosing to turn off the TV we started spending more time doing other things. We took walks, played games, wandered the isles of Lowes and Home Depot, read books, worked puzzles, and spent time sitting on the couch just talking. In the next months we grew closer to each other and looked forward to our evenings together. We weren't just existing, we were investing time into each other and into our marriage.
Having Jake tell me about the phone call as we spent our evening together was a great reminder of how much I love our life. We cooked dinner together, we played with Zoe and put her to bed. We cleaned up the kitchen and sat down to fresh baked brownies and a game of cribbage. We talked, laughed, smiled, and kissed.
Is $5 a month a great price for a cable package? Probably. But having a husband who chooses to spend his time investing in me and Zoe is worth so much more!
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