REAL LOVE

originally posted August 15, 2007



Real Love


I have been wanting to post this since yesterday. Bill has been on my mind a lot since he left a week ago. I've been thinking about how blessed I am to have married someone who takes my breath away every time our eyes meet.
I guess what got me to thinking about my feelings for him and this love we have found was a song by Rebecca St. James titled" Wait for Me." It is a song about abstinence til marriage which at first glance may not seem to fit us. We are both second-time marrieds. Both have sowed some fairly wild oats, both together and apart.

We both accepted Christ as our Lord and Savior in 2000 and our marriage went from being a good one to a marriage of deeper understanding, greater communication and a more profound love than I have ever known. Words cannot express the joy I feel when I hear his voice on the phone, smell his cologne on his pillow or receive his prayers for me and prayers over me. This is real love. REAL LOVE.

"Wait for Me," reminds me of the time we spend apart as he works offshore because honestly, when he comes home it is like seeing each other for the first time all over again. And wait for him I have, as has he....We wait for a month at a time, saving our spiritual and emotional intimacy only for one another, praying for each other while we're apart, for strength and for the time when we are back together again....and when we said til death do us part, we meant it with all of our hearts....


Darling did you know that I
I dream about you
Waiting for the look in your eyes
When we meet for the first time
Darling did you know that I
I pray about you
Praying that you will hold on
Keep your loving eyes only for me
I am waiting for
Praying for you darling
Wait for me too
Wait for me as I wait for you
I am waiting for
Praying for you darling
Wait for me too
Wait for me as I wait for you
Darling wait
Darling did you know that I dream about life together
Knowing it will be forever
I'll be yours and you'll be mine
And darling when I say
Till death do us part
I'll mean it with all of my heart
Now and always faithful to you
I am waiting for
Praying for you darling
Wait for me too
Wait for me as I wait for you
I am waiting for
Praying for you darling
Wait for me too
Wait for me as I wait for you
Darling wait
Now I know you may have made mistakes
But there's forgiveness and a second chance
So wait for me darling
Wait for me
Wait for me
"Wait for Me," ~~Rebecca St. James


Real Love
means we make mistakes and love our way through them
Real Love
means we allow our love for one another to cover a multitude of sins and a myraid of shortcomings
Real Love
means respect
Real Love
means being the mates God called us to be
Real Love
means forgiveness-true forgiveness where an account of wrongs is neither held nor nurtured
Real Love
means laughing together
Real Love
means unity
Real Love
means putting God and each other first, in that order
Real Love
means what we have is not in conflict with the Bible or the Ways of God-it is a Godly and blessed union.
Real Love
means understanding that this life of ours is not our own, that living only for ourselves and "living my life how only I choose" is not acceptable to God or one to another.
Real Love
is what I have with Bill and I am forever grateful to God for it.


Blessings, Ya'll


Robin