Happy Valentine's Day

I didn't know I was writing this song about you, and that I would meet you only 3 short months later. I didn't know you would be such a puzzle--a salty dog with a deeper measure of compassion and love of the truth and courage to stand with Christ, no matter the cost, than I thought could exist in one person at a time.  I didn't know I was already loving you, by choosing to lay aside my plans and expectations and take hold of Christ, letting Him fill all the empty spaces.  I'm glad I waited.  I'm glad you waited.  You were so, so worth waiting for.  All of those quiet moments of listening and loving Christ were laying a perfect foundation for what He wanted to build with us.

Our relationship had a different effect on me than I had expected.  My heart was getting fuller and fuller every day, but I seemed to have fewer and fewer words with which to express myself.  Love can do that.  Sometimes love grows better in the silence.

 

I wrote this song last summer, when we had to be away from each other for a few months.  I had known you were the man I wanted to marry for a long time, and I didn't want anyone else.  This is the song that I pledged my heart to you with.  It will always be true.  Agape literally means to prefer.  I will prefer you above all others, every day.  You will be the one I choose again and again.  Yesterday is over now, and today I still choose you.  

I love you so much, Noah!  I'm grateful that you are the one I will spend my life with!