I love looking through the “This Week Last Year” feature to the right. It’s always fascinating for me to see what God was doing in my heart and life last year at this time. He’s so good! I read through “Do you love the Savior” and my heart was pricked again with that touch of longing and I asked myself, Do I?
Last night Jeff and I went to a fun dress-up murder mystery party with friends from church. Jeff was Southside Sal, a mob boss, and I was Flora Nemitz, a woman of disrepute unfortunately. But the fun part was the my character was supposed to be secretly sweet on Southside Sal…which meant to fulfill my role I was supposed to fawn all over him that night. Needless to say, Jeff loved it. He jokingly said, “My wife’s flirting with me for the first time in months!”
It’s pretty rare that we get dressed up and go out. With two little ones and a crazy busy schedule, we usually opt for sipping tea and playing Scrabble when the kids go to bed. But I was reminded last night that sometimes what you do, and action steps you take can actually re-spark that love that dulls at times.
This morning we had breakfast with a fun couple who we didn’t know very well. Married 25 years, they are the epitome of a happy, healthy marriage. They told us their crazy story of how days after she graduated from high school they wrote a note and on a crazy whim eloped and ran away to California. As they recounted the crazy obstacles they had to face, all I could say to the husband was, “Man, she must really love you!!”
How do you fall in love so crazy-hard that you’ll abandon everything, family, home, a full-ride college scholarship (in her case) to follow the man you love into a cockroach-infested studio apartment with only $800 to your name? Love is weird, but there’s one thing that proves it’s real–a willingness to leave it all, not out of stoic duty, but out of wild crazy love.
Not all of us are wild crazy love kind of people. I mean some people just aren’t that demonstrative or emotional. But we all experience love, and we all joyfully make sacrifices for that