Thought #17

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.

- Genesis 29: 20

I can't rightly say if I've ever been in love, but when I am I only pray it be like this:

A love that waits for another no matter the length of time.  No matter how many sun rises and sets accumulate; it will be a patient love.  It will be one that grows and matures, that never counts the passing hours leading onto day that slowly turn to months and those moons turn to years.  It will be one that honors the Lord in all that it is.  One that works like gears ever in motion bringing you from one coast to the next - moving with the horizon and following the cycle of the sun.  It will serve for the purpose of loving another.  By all of this, I know I am in love.

For what is it if we are not focused on someone else, someone other than our self?  What is it if we are not captured, wrapped up, held captive by the hope of being together with one other person?  And what is it without patience, without time advancing?

If after all of this love remains, I will know.

Now each person will tell you something different about love.  But it is for you to search out.  It is for you to find.  It is for you to try, to test, and then to draw your own interpretation.  And, most of all, it is for you to work with, to work at, because it is worth the time even if that time is seven years; when you are in love time doesn't matter.