I Knew It was Love!

There is no formula for really knowing what love is.  You can't break off a piece of love and hold it in your hand.  Yet, people die for love.  People accomplish feats of greatness for the cause of love.  Masterpieces are created for the sake of love!  Love is the strongest force in all existence, yet there is no tangible evidence of it as a single entity.

I have found love.  It's all of the things mentioned in the previous paragraph.  I could read writings from hundreds of years ago, written by individuals from various people groups, and my love would match any of the amorous works.  I can also say that I have loved every minute of being in love!  When you find good, true love, you love it!  As I mentioned in my previous blog, I love the good and the bad.

My husband is my soul mate.  One does not dislike their own soul.  So I accept every part of my husband and every part of our relationship.  I have fun with it.  When we met, it was as though we had found some intergalactic mirror and took a look for the first time.  This part of me that lay dormant for a couple dozen years awoke.  This part of me came to life.  I met a person who stood apart from all other people.  If I wouldn't have known better, it was as though I saw man for the first time (sort of what is described in the Genesis account of Adam and Eve).

I recently heard someone ask the question, "How do you know?"  Now, Finding yourself in a place where you are ready to commit to marriage is a huge step in life.  There's a huge chance that you could be wrong.  There is a huge chance that your decision could be driven by emotion and feelings.  Both of which have a strong history of being inaccurate.  So what do you do?  How do you know?

With my love, it was the first time I found myself saying, "When you know, you know."  That phrase used to always make me sick when I heard other people saying it.  Then, it happened to me.  After a little more than a couple months of dating, we quickly realized something bigger than us was in our midst.  We were merely spectators adoring the handy works of God.  We were like children that saw bubbles for the first time (I say this as I imagine my son staring in wonderment at the bubbles).

It wasn't long after acknowledging God's work in our lives that we we quickly made the decision to pursue marriage.  There was no question, just a strong desire for commitment and obeying what God had brought to the table.

Now, we understood life would be hard at times.  We understood that marriage wasn't a piece of cake.  We looked forward to the challenge.  Marriage would be the best ride in the park.  It had the tallest hills, the craziest turns, and the fastest cars.  No matter what we would ride it out.  That's all it took!  That's how we knew!  We didn't know the factuality of our emotions.  However, we did know what we wanted.  We wanted each other.  We wanted to be obedient to God as we knew that our relationship was something from a higher power.  We wanted to fight for each other.  This new relationship was a gift to us from God and we were going to love it, protect it, own it, and, again, more that anything else, fight for what was ours.

We haven't turned back.  It has been over three and a half years of marriage.  We love it.  We enjoy it.  We own it.  I left out we want it.  We want it more than we've wanted anything else in the world.  While there is no actual formula for love, formulas do seem to be created out of love.  Daniel and I have our own games, jokes, arguments, late night chats, and growing our child that bring us together every day.  We cherish what is good and readily discard what is not.  We hold hands through all of life's journeys and never stop kissing.  We seek God in everything we do and seek to know our Father in Heaven better.