» Random Thoughts Current Archive [an error occurred while processing this directive]		March 15, 2005 - I love Marit        It is true, I love a beautiful girl named Marit Mautz.  I have for sometime, but it really isn't till now that I've told the world about my feelings for her.        I've known Marit (pronounced "mär-it") a long time now and we've been friends during that whole time.  Some of you know the long, complex, and sometimes difficult, story that encompasses our friendship.  But God saw both her and me through (still is), in ways I couldn't have, and I'm sure she couldn't have, ever imagined.  And through that process I fell in love with the beautiful heart inside the beautiful girl.  This past half year or so, as Marit has been my long, and close-distance girlfriend, she has had to deal many a difficult situation.  But I've seen her come through those tough times and become even stronger as she's refined and molded into something so precious.        I recently visited her this past weekend out in Utah where she goes to school, and our time together was so wonderful.  It was short, but so very sweet.  She made a declaration about her love for Jesus that is far greater than anything else, and I was so honored and endeared to be there to support and share that with her.        And though this love of ours is potent and strong, we realize that patience and waiting on God is so important for our relationship at this point, and so that is what we are doing.  We cannot say where this will lead us, but we know it is the right way.  We will wait and trust in him and praise whatever he may bring.  We seek God's will above our own and recognize that he may have something or someone else planned for either of us.  We also wish to seek the counsel and guidance of any future considerations from our parents, our family, and our friends.  We have no ulterior motives and will maintain our strong bond of friendship no matter what happens, because it is founded in grace, humility, and love; everlasting and honorable qualities.        And so I think of all the pretty girls I've come across over the years, and I think of all the too-skinny fake models on TV, and I think of all the magazine ads that have been airbrushed, etc…..and then I think about Marit, and how her beauty inside and out surpasses them all by an infinite magnitude.  And I've fallen in love with her.  I've fallen in love with her compassionate arms, her radiant and loving smile, her ears that listen, and her merciful lips.  I love her helping hands, her forgiving face, her courage, and her humility.  I've fallen in love with her beautiful heart and my spirits rise because of her graceful soul.        Marit, I love you.  And now anyone that ever comes to my site will know also, and why… "Being in Love"        What we call "being in love" is a glorious state, and, in several ways, good for us.  It helps to make us generous and coraugeous, it opens our eyes not only to the beauty of the beloved but to all beauty, and it subordinates (especially at first) our merely animal sexuality; in that sense love is the great conqueror of lust.  No one in his senses would deny that being in love is far better than either common sensuality or cold self-centredness.  But, as I said before, "the most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of our own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs".  Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing.  There are many things below it, but there are also things above it.  You cannot make it the basis of a whole life. It is a noble feeling, but it is still a feeling...Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go...But, of course, ceasing to be "in love" need not mean ceasing to love.  Love in this second sense -love as distinct from "being in love"- is not merely a feeling.  It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriage) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God...  "Being in love" first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise.  It is now this love that the engine of marriage is run: being in love was the explosion that started it." -from "Mere Christianity", C.S.Lewis Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: "Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all." Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised. -Proverbs 31:28-30

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