This new Joy is simply going deep with one another.
Most evenings, lately, we find ourselves turning off our television and going to bed early to spend intentional time snuggling, talking, truly enjoying, and paying attention to one another...what we like to call “intimate conversations”. Of course, this usually includes a back massage for me!! Ha!
We then find ourselves unintentionally waking up the next morning for more snuggling, close conversation, and laughter. Enjoying each other after being away in sleep. It seems the more time we spend purposefully paying attention and listening to one another, the more we feel we need this in our marriage. We are going deeper in our relationship and finding more joy in our love and marriage that has poured itself out just by going deeper and engaging with one another. The Father is talking to us and writing on our hearts and we can't help but watch the sparks fly. It's lovely.
We then find ourselves unintentionally waking up the next morning for more snuggling, close conversation, and laughter. Enjoying each other after being away in sleep. It seems the more time we spend purposefully paying attention and listening to one another, the more we feel we need this in our marriage. We are going deeper in our relationship and finding more joy in our love and marriage that has poured itself out just by going deeper and engaging with one another. The Father is talking to us and writing on our hearts and we can't help but watch the sparks fly. It's lovely.
Just as our marriage has drawn us both together intimately, and with time, we go deeper with one another, God is calling all of us to go deeper. The deep part of His heart is asking us to turn off the distractions and is inviting us to an intimate conversation with Him. He longs to share the intimate details of His heart with us and to be given the entirety of yours. He wants to reciprocate sweet nothings....He wants to be worshipped. He wants to share His heart with you, romance you, most of all....LOVE you. He wants to be an intimate part of your heart. He wants to love on you because He loves you so intimately.
It's Who He is!
It's this love and intimacy with the Father our souls crave. We will find ourselves excited by Him, filled with joy because of Him, anticipating encounters with Him, drawn closer to Him.
St. Augustine in his book “Confessions," said,
"You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.
He wrote your name on the palm of His hand. (Isaiah 49:16)
He writes down every tear that falls from your eyes. (Psalm 56:8)
He knows the exact number of hairs on your head. (Matthew 10:30)
He knows every detail about you
and He wants you!
and He wants you!
He wants an intimate part of you and for you to be an intimate part of Him!
We are truly loved by the Creator of the Universe.
It's time to go deeper!
Are you going?
Ashley,,, you are a beautiful writer and what makes it more special is it comes from your heart! I have felt that feeling of restless heart .. and only HE can fill it -- you are so right. This was so inspirational!
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