devastatingly human

i attended my cell leader's wedding today. it's embarrassing the way weddings always make you teary eyed, as if every single one of them are such fairy tales. They are. But i just felt that today's one was special in an unspeakable way. I think i now understand what it means to be loved. I was especially touched when Mabel said she saw God's love in Evan. It's unbelievably romantic and stirring to see a couple wedded in God's love, embedded in his blessings, fervant in their love for Him and for each other.

How we long for the kinds of love: love over-zealous, passionate love, oh love consuming. But today i saw a different kind of love. The tender adoration, deep affection and respect was so telling in their faces. Not the fiery and passionate amorousness, that bursts forth on and off, but the love of a quiet quality; where still waters run deep.

and i thought to myself: beautiful, simply beautiful. How often is it that our significant other declares we're beautiful and means it through and through. And i realise, i don't need bourgeois adulation; and i don't need hackneyed amorousness. The quiet stoic love that burns unending, devoid of passionate outbursts, but of serene intensity. that's the kind of amazing love i think i'd rather have now.

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