A heart celebrating
How beautiful to live without age, how beautiful to live the way you manage to, what joy to see you smile, what an honour to see you dream in the mornings, waking up with you.
You manage to be as joyful as a young girl and as mature as a charismatic leader. Of course you're not Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, but you know how to be sweet and bitter, soft and hard, just as life presents itself. As the word of God says: innocent as a dove and shrewd as a snake. For those less familiar with the Word: wise and intelligent.
Oh yes, because you are not what others look at; they see a beautiful woman and the judgement is quickly made, quickly said. But those who listen to your life no longer need psychologists, psychiatrists, medication or recovery therapy. Those who today get lost in your smile have never known your tears.
You are the example of a woman who loves and who didn't bind herself to her husband but to Christ. You are the example of a relationship and not of a religion. You hold me tight because our bond is Jesus, just as I hold you tight. It can't be explained unless you listen to the story of who you are.
The women I know so far who know your life have changed theirs, binding themselves to God too. Yes, because beyond the judgements you had to endure, beyond the injustices you had to suffer, you have always fought and won with Christ.
Your wounds are greater than the happiness you manage to give, but they never show.
Your sensitivity, courage and determination, but at the same time your fragility, your tears and your surrender, make you special.
Despite the "strong" man I feel I am, I can never get out of bed when you hug me from behind and sleep wrapped around me. In that moment I feel like Superman with his red cape. I'd be embarrassed in that tight suit, but I'm also sure you'd know how to cover me with love, as you do.
You don't deserve a blog post, because it's too little, but you wouldn't accept gifts either, because you keep telling me you don't need anything. Of course I'd rather (let me say it's a joke) buy you a dress, because every time you tell me to go and celebrate with a good meal. It makes me smile, but how could I not love you for who you are?
All this is for me and you, for couples and families who think they are no longer special together, who think their relationship is old by now and a memory of youth, for people who feel lost because they think they've been defeated by a separation, by a divorce. This is you and me: a fantastic imperfection of mistakes redeemed by a relationship not between human beings, but between being and the goal of Life, Truth and Way. All this makes us go against the grain of every life, but aware of victory.
A heart celebrating is what I have inside, thinking of your birthday today. It's a Monday, but you're always celebrating, and that doesn't change even if I have to remind someone that you were born on this date; the celebration is knowing you're alive and here to be together, just like when God made us meet. Oh yes, I always have to use this phrase, because today I celebrate my day with you, like all the ones we'll live together; living is today, and for every day that will have its own trouble.
Do I love you? We are one thing; I love myself, so how can I not love you, who are me? You're not a part of my body; we are ONE in Christ.
Love is like this: it always shows you who the person is who will put up with staying by your side, but the freedom to love is in the Holy Spirit. In the word of God it is written: Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord's glory as in a mirror, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. (Corinthians 3:17-18).
You know how to look at yourself in the mirror and recognise yourself in the right things and in those that need fixing, putting them right by listening to and following God's heart. This is your freedom, because you're not ashamed to live with your strengths and flaws, but on the right path.
Happy birthday, my love ❤️
