Yes love. love is on the brain. ...
Today i watched the movie "Letters to Juliet". and wow. it was so good. i came home giddy and of course anticipating my love story to begin... how can you not watch a romantic love story and not be excited to meet your soulmate? :) yes. i am a romantic who loves sappy love stories. and yes i thrive on love. its just the way God made me. i love watching two people fall in love, love seeing a couple who has been together for fifty years holding hands and walking down the street.. its only beautiful and timeless. and the thing that gets me the most is the scene with the bride and groom who are about to get married... there is nothing more choking and emotional to me than seeing the groom wait for his bride to walk down the aisle. he waits with a passion and an anticipation that can only be described by the look in his eyes. as he see's his long awaited bride walk down the aisle, his passion grows and can hardly be contained. you can see it in both the bride and the grooms eyes. the moment they have both waited for has finally come. the bride walking, pure as can be, in the dress that makes her feel the most beautiful she has ever felt.. and the groom just stares.. and smiles.. and they look at eachother and realize this is the moment they will commit the rest of their days to and with eachother. how amazing is this...
both you and i will or already have had this most special moment happen. but if you are a lover of God, yes, will happen in heaven.. Yes, Jesus, your husband is waiting for you. He is standing at the end of the alter just waiting and anticipating your arrival to the church, waiting for the doors to fling open and waiting to see His beautiful spotless bride walk down the aisle.. oh yes. brings tears to your eyes? mine too.
Song of Songs 4
"you have stolen my heart, with just one glance of your eyes.. yes". this says it all. Jesus, is just waiting for you to look at Him and be forever captivated by His eyes of love.
this is the picture i saw as I was thinking about this. i pictured it and it was me walking down the aisle in my white dress, and He was waiting for me. I just began crying as I pictured this.. there is nothing more amazing than thinking that the love of your life is waiting for you. the love of my life is the creator of the universe! after all the times He pursued me, and woed me, and I fell in love. and then I fell away and took interest in everything but Him, but He still called me by name and pursued me daily and said "nothing you do or do not do will take my love away from you. Come away my love, I have plans for you, its not too late, its gonna be full of me". This is Jesus! this is my husband!
I took His and and as He took mine i realized everything about this was perfect. as soon as i walked to Him, He said " can I have this dance". and I said Yes. This was my Yes for eternity. I said Yes to Jesus, my lover, my husband, my best friend. and we will forever dance into all eternity.
love is a beautiful thing. whether it is two people falling in love or falling in dancing the eternal dance with Jesus ... we were all made to love. :)
living in beauty requires much waiting, and much time. My gaze is directed towards the face of God. the longer i wait for my love story to begin, the more my heart is enlarged. I have learned throughout this waiting period that God does not always give me what I want when I want it. and yes, it is sometimes painful. but the more I wait, the more heightened, the more delightful it is to picture the moment I am waiting for.
For I am awakened.
