The Moment
Lysa Terkeust (Encouragement for Today)
"And yet I will show you the most excellent way. If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal." (1 Corinthians 12:31 – 13:1 NIV)
Each morning, I have a routine with my husband. It's simple. Nothing profound. Nothing for which we'd ever stop and snap a picture.
It's just a moment.
He asks me to help him pick a tie. He then goes away to fuss with this fixture of his professional job. Soon, he returns with a flipped up collar and a pressed down, knotted tie. He needs gentle hands to fold the collar over. Actually, he doesn't need. He wants gentle hands to fold the collar over.
And I do.
It's just a moment.
But it's a moment when we follow the "excellent way" of love. In the intersection of this moment, we're once again saying to each other: I love you; I love you too.
Now, please don't get an overly idyllic picture in your head of our marriage. Heavens, no. We have plenty of those "growth opportunity" moments too.
But this moment with the tie, it's like a spot of glue ever tightening the bond between us day by day. It's so simple, and yet something I would miss with the deepest ache imaginable if today were the last of the moments.
If today.
Tears slip as I think about this. Dear God, help me think about this. Let me snap a hundred of these moments with the lens of my heart to be stored and appreciated and thought of as the great treasure they are.
Let my mind park there.
Let my heart relish there.
Let my mouth dare to whisper what a joy this is. I love you. I love us. I love this moment each day.
Our relationship isn't perfect; no relationship is perfect. We're two very strong-willed people with vastly different approaches to life. And, oh, how easy it would be to list all the differences. He likes the towel hanging in the same spot. I am more creative. But I stop the list there.
I stop because great love isn't two people finding the perfect match in one another. Great love is two people making the choice to be a match. A decision. To fold his collar and snap the heart lens and find myself grateful to the point of tears. Tears of relishing today are so much better than tears of what was missed.
It's just a moment.
Or is it?
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My most profound routine moments in the midst of all that is good in my life with him is in the final kiss before we part ways.
It is that simple kiss ... dare I whisper, "I love you. I miss you already. You are so incredibly important in my life. Did I say I love you?"
It is the moment I want time to stop and the world to slip away.
It is our routine. Day by day.
My bows and congrats to Lysa's post today in admiration, heartfelt appreciation, and mutual respect of the simple moments in life that mean everything.
It is that simple kiss ... dare I whisper, "I love you. I miss you already. You are so incredibly important in my life. Did I say I love you?"
It is the moment I want time to stop and the world to slip away.
It is our routine. Day by day.
My bows and congrats to Lysa's post today in admiration, heartfelt appreciation, and mutual respect of the simple moments in life that mean everything.
