I did two weeks on cardiothoracic surgery back in February. I participated in 8 open heart surgeries. I saw and held real, live beating hearts. It was truly a surreal experience to see the heart beating. Lub-Dub. Lub-Dub. Contracting and relaxing. 60 times a minute. Pumpling life giving blood through the arteries and veins of the patient.
I understand why people correlate love and the physical heart. It is active and moves. Love is active and it moves. Love can be life giving, and the loss of love can suck the life right from someone... as if their heart had stopped. It only makes sense to put the two together.
14 days until my wedding. I cannot believe how fast time has passed since May 15, 2010. It seems like just yesterday Nicholas was on one knee at the foot of the cross asking me to take his name. Since then we've been super busy. Every weekend since February has been planned for us. We've had 6 showers and the bachelor/bachelorette weekend. It has been non-stop. The reality of it is beginning to set in... Our plane tickets and honeymoon info came in yesterday (I CANNOT WAIT TO HIT THE BEACH!!). This weekend we are moving my furniture to his house and right now I'm checking the weather forecast praying fervently that it isn't cold, raining, or windy. Unbelievable. Time flies.
With the big day approaching, I am completely aware of that I have a heart. Not aware as in I know I have one, but aware as in I can FEEL I have one. I can feel it in my chest. It is fluttery. I have butterflies. At times, it feels so swollen with love that I feel it may burst. I am so excited to be marrying the man God hand picked for me. I'm looking forward to learning about Nicholas, his quirky traits and habits, and how I can best serve him and love him as a wife. I pray that we can be a picture of Christ and the church. Our desire is that our wedding inspires other couples to remember what they felt on their wedding day and to rekindle their love for one another. We want our love to be life-giving-active and visible. Just like a heartbeat.
1 Corinthians 13- The Love Chapter
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part; 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. 11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. 13 But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.
I always end my posts with pictures. This was the only fitting picture of LOVE:
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