Have you ever allowed yourself to Love? I mean really Love? The kind of love that you put everything you are in to that other person. You allow yourself to daydream about what life WILL be like. You sit and think of different ways to show them how special they are to you - you want to make them happy and make them feel loved. Thoughts of them consume your day - every idle moment is spent on them and even non idle moments. You get a smile when you think of them. Your phone rings and your pulse quickens in hopes that you will hear their voice. You love them!
I know there are skeptics saying that what I have described is some cross between the puppy love and infatuation, but I am talking about something much deeper. Yes, it sounds similar - but everything in your being knows this is right, this is true - they are "the one". However, what do you do when fear grips you? Do you fight and push through or are you frozen? The relationship I am talking about scares everyone to their core - to have this relationship you have to be totally vulnerable and open. You have to trust and you must be honest, not only with them but with yourself!!
We have all "been in love", but few ever find what I am talking about. It is that love that you see in the elderly couple sitting on the park bench still holding hands after 50 years. Not the love Hollywood sells - not the superficial, here today gone tomorrow marriages that our society has grown to accept. I am talking about loving someone with the Love the Bible talks about, that love.
Though my question is this - Now what? Once we find it, now what? Do we risk ourselves for something that we know is right, or do we settle for something less? Is it really a risk if we know it is right? Society and the world would have us believe that it is a huge risk, one that we are foolish to take because we have to trust in something other than ourselves... I think it is a bigger risk to either stay idle or walk away. Anything worth having involves some risk, in this case the reward is far better than anything I could ever imagine. God has blessings for us that we can not begin to understand - a marriage and that relationship/ covenant is one.
So I ask again, Now what? Take my hand???
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