Love Still Believes When You Don’t

(I stole this picture from a good friend, Holly Kane. Thanks Holly!)

When they say summer goes fast, it's an absurd understatement. After Getaway, I did the unthinkable and went up to the north, to Pittsburgh, to do a mini internship with Silver Ring Thing. The people up there are some of my best friends - they bring out the best in me and make me a better person. They teach me to love, to be patient and so many other attributes. I am seriously so blessed and don't know what I did to deserve such amazing friends.

While I was up there I really thought about what it meant to wait, in the purity sense, so I thought I would look up what dictionary.com thought waiting meant. It gave me goosebumps when I read it, below are the results (keep in mind this is waiting in general):

1. to remain inactive as until something happens

2. to be available or in readiness

3. to postpone or delay something in expectation

4. to look forward to eagerly

5. to continue as one is in expectation of

6. to be reserved for

Number 6 particularity is absolutely incredible. These definitions were written in the secular sense but it perfectly exemplifies what it means in the sense I intended it for. Also, 'to wait in expectation' or 'to look forward to eagerly'. I am waiting so eagerly for my husband. I love him and I don't even know him - that feeling is both indescribably incredible and crazy at the same time. I am very much so a romantic and I often find myself wondering if I know him or not. It is completely absurd, yet it absolutely overjoys me when I start thinking about it. I feel like the little girl who tries on her mom's clothes - and imagines what it would be like to be old. Her time will come, but she has to wait. I think 1 Corinthians 13 is so intentional in the order. Love is patient is the first for a particular reason, I believe. In order to love and to find true love, you must be patient, not running to other things to pass the time or because it seems like the most convenient and fulfilling thing at the time, you must be patient and wait for God's best. I am waiting for God's best and want to know I'm wearing white on my wedding day for a reason. I can't wait to be head over heals in love, and I'm willing to wait.

Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:12-13