WHOOSH!
It hits me. I am swept up by love and transported to a perfect utopia. There's nothing like it. Everything is suddenly viewed through love colored lenses. I see nothing but the one my heart belongs to. I could be doing the most mundane task in the world, but I will feel as if I'm floating on a cloud. My heart swells like the crescendo of a symphony. My soul writes the most beautiful music, the kind that can only be heard by the one consumed by it. It is glorious rapture.
He isn't always there when it happens. But when he is, I wonder if he sees it in my eyes. I wonder if he feels the heat radiating from my bursting heart. I don't think he realizes how much he triggers it. Or maybe he stole some of cupid's arrows. Sometimes, all it takes is one small token of affection and my heart swoons. Sometimes it's only a glance.
Someone once said that the eyes are the windows of the soul. I think they were right. There are moments when my eyes meet his, I find that I see past the brown iris facade and into the the soul. There I find the essence of the man I love. There's no fear, no trying to cover up...There lies layers upon layers of the quintessence of my husband. It it is complex, intriguing and mysterious. I love to see it.
Marriage is quite a mysterious thing indeed. And I thank God for it.
Thus I end with one of my favorite sonnets about marriage and love. Props to you Shakespeare.
SONNET 16
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
That alters when in alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! It is an ever-fixed mark
It looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Who's worth's unknown, though his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
3 comments:
Jennifer, I am so amazed by your blog. You are such a wonderful writer, I always look forward to reading your posts.
I love to hear people talk about this, because I experience the same thing. I wondered if I was the only person it happened to, or if many get to endulge in the wonderfulness of it as well. It's like no other feeling of love I have ever felt before. Sometimes I wonder if it is God blessing a marriage truly sewn together by Him, and He is simply sprinkling down drops of HIS love from time to time to give us a taste of what marriage with Him in the center feels like. :)
Stacy, thank you so much! I love to write and I'm glad you enjoy it!
Kasey, I'm so glad you get those feelings too! I think you are right. There's nothing like it...
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