What Is Love?

What is love?

It's the first flutter when two souls connect. It's the first conversation. It’s the first date.

It’s the electricity of sitting across the table from a perfect stranger who will become the best friend.

It's long conversations about life already lived and life to come.

It’s endless ribs and walks by the lake. It’s seafood pasta and miniature cakes. It’s grocery shopping for two and cooking for fun.

It's the anticipation of getting engaged. It’s knowing it’s going to happen but not knowing when.

It's the moment of pure joy when he asks if you'll be his wife.

It's years of answered prayers embodied in a single person.

It’s standing across from him on your wedding day knowing God perfectly picked him to hear your "I do".

It's the excitement of what comes next. And endless moments of the ordinary.

It's sacrificing comfort and ease during long months of bedrest.

It’s worrying if the Baby will live. It’s knowing he could have died.

It’s facing the unknowns with fear and courage.

It’s when Heaven and Earth touch as you see your child for the first time.

It’s the hush in the hospital room when it’s just the three of you.

It’s long nights of no sleep. It’s diaper blow outs. It’s loads of laundry. It’s disagreeing through the tired and learning to work through it.

It’s 100% commission sales and financial stress.

It’s working hard and harder again for something bigger than yourself.

It’s finding the perfect place to live and working hard to get it.

It’s memories and more memories. And thousands in between.

It’s babies and more babies.

It’s health scares and recoveries.

It’s job losses and new beginnings.

It’s joys and sorrows.

It’s highs and lows.

It’s loss. It’s grief. It’s suffering. It’s the Cross.

It’s laughter and tears.

It’s growing together and sometimes growing apart. Then learning to start and re-start.

It’s two weeks turned into 20 years.

It’s messy and imperfect. It’s beautiful and transcendent.

It’s inexplicable.

It’s love.