“What was so special about your wife?” Dr. Marsha Fieldstone asked Sam.
“How long is your program?” Sam asked Dr. Marsha Fieldstone. “There were a million tiny things…”
“How did it happen?”
“I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. I was home. Except not any home I had ever known. It was…magic”
That scene from Sleepless in Seattle still gets to my husband and me after all these years. I glanced over at him last night, wanting to ask if that’s the way he still felt about me, and saw the glisten on his cheek that matched my own. I went ahead and asked.
“I knew it before I touched you,” he said. “I was fifteen, and you were awfully pretty…”
As I am wondering and pondering Love this morning, the fourth candle of Advent, I randomly open to the pages of Lamentations and am taken aback to find these Words:
“Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning.” My heart is taking in the greatest Romance ever written…
I wonder if we were to ask God what was so special about you or me what He might say? Maybe this? “I loved you even before you came into existence. Imagine the touch of My hands knitting you together. Hands that will never let you go.”
The touch of a miracle.
Tomorrow…The Incarnation. Becoming One. The Miracle. Love Eternal.
Be still. “Through the heartfelt mercies of our God, God’s Sunrise will break in upon us, shining on those living in darkness, those sitting in the shadow of death. Then showing us the way, one foot at a time, down the path of peace.”
In silent adoration we hear His whisper, the Light of the world, guiding us into the way of peace…
Come, rest. Ponder the Mystery. It’s more than magic. It’s majestic.
Outside my window, the winter wind is blowing in great gusts. Breathe in, a deep cleansing breath, exhale.
Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling, calling for you and for me…
Come Home.
Scriptures referenced: Lamentations 3:22, 23; Psalm 46:1, John 8:12; Luke 1:78-79 (The Message). Opening Scene: Sleepless in Seattle by Nora Ephron; Softly & Tenderly by Will L. Thompson in 1880
Excellent, Deborah! Your thoughts remind me of God saying in the scriptures, “I have loved you with an everlasting love.”
My favorite romance line is from the movie Jerry Maguire, “You had me at ‘hello.’” Christ “had” us before hello. A very thoughtful post. Thank you. God Bless!
David, that’s our other favorite! 😃
I love your very thoughtful comment! Thank you. God bless!
Deb
Amen and Amen! I’m grateful for the ability to hear what some hear and see what some see, especially from the opposite gender, that I don’t always hear or see. Two becoming one is a gift in so many ways, especially as God is formed in our hearts. Blessings!
Bruce, that’s so beautiful. I’ve been thinking about my next post and could only get as far as “Becoming…” I believe you might have just answered that for me! You’re so awesome. And blessings back.
I don’t think my mind can get to the bottom of that mystery of God’s loving us always, before, after, forever and his lengths to show it.
Oh, Deb, this is beautiful! And to find the one for you when he is just fifteen – Wow, just wow.
Oh, I was so floored I forgot to wish you a Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas!!!
Yeah, well, it only took me twenty years to realize he was the one for me. (Or was it thirty…?) But by grace I go.
Merry Christmas, Kelly! ❤️
Gary, agreed. But who can on this side of heaven…?
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