"Do you think this will work?"
He asked me earnestly, and with eyes-wide looking lovingly towards
me.
I wondered, will it?
Do we ever know if it will last forever?
Or, do we make our best attempt to find a partner who we are willing to fight for; someone who despite life's challenges, you seem to continue to gravitate towards, and desire to please them and make them happy?
If I am honest, I don't believe in "the one." I
haven't for awhile.
Don't take this as a jaded view or as someone who doesn't believe
in love.
I am a true believer of love, but not love as most see it.
Not an interim, contrived love, but a love that fights - with full-on MMA gloves.
A love that will be challenged various times in the lifetime of a
marriage.
A love that will not always be happy or feel loving.
But a love that endures because it chooses to.
It chooses over and over again to put itself on the front lines of
the battlefield knowing full well that it will be hurt, scarred, and
broken.
That love may not
want to get up at times, but it chooses with its last ounce of strength to
ALWAYS try again.
So do I know if this
will work?
No.
But what's the fun in knowing the future anyway?
All I know is that I
am willing to fight - fight hard without seizing - every day I am alive, and
always put you first after Christ.
I love you - always more.
