February 16, 2007

Love Him

I've been thinking a lot about love lately - not too surprising the week of Valentine's Day - and I've been trying to piece together what I wanted to say in my head. Unfortunately, I get the most inspired when I'm driving - exactly when I can't do anything about it, as I have no way of transcribing my thoughts as I hurtle down the Connector.

Today I checked my new favorite blog on Worship.com to find today's entry basically said what I wanted to say anyway.

I love love. I get sucked into love stories and movies and Hallmark commercials - like a lot of women - and it gives me a thrill to see couples who really seem to Get It; who view their marriages as a gift to fight for and be grateful for with every breath. Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance were on Oprah's Valentine's show and after seeing them, I ordered their book "Friends: A Love Story." What struck me the most was when Courtney said that he gets the chance to see Angela, to love her, in a fraction of the way God loves her. I don't even know what it would be like to have a man to love me like that, but maybe someday I'll get to find out.

It's one of God's greatest gifts to us, I think, this ability and desire to bind ourselves to each other. It doesn't matter whether that binding takes the form of family, friendship or marriage; it's all miraculous.

Maybe someday I'll get married. Maybe I won't. But I no longer weep and wonder when it will be my turn to be loved, because I am overwhelmed by how much I already am. The greatest Love Story is the one we share with our Creator; the story He longs to tell to each of us. We long for relationships because we were created for one. We desire love because we were created to be in love with Him.

What else is there to say?

Posted by hannah at 04:17 PM