Love Does: Ryan in Love

Chapter 3 of Love Does

"I used to think being loves was the greatest thing to think about, but now I know love is never satisfied just thinking about it."

Ryan is a young man that walks by the author's home, in their backyard, by the water. They live by the water and people often walk by their house. Ryan bravely asks if he can use their house as a backdrop for asking a girl to marry him. He is in love.

The author agrees, but then Ryan one by one on successive days begins to add additional requests to the proposal. And each request further adds to the wonder and excitement of this event. The author also surprises him with a detail of his own doing for the proposal.

There is an obvious reminder here of the significance of beginning a union with your mate. The preparation involved in a wedding day should confirm that the coming union is like no other union a man and woman share on earth. Life is lived in a relationship, one with the other, for the remaining days of one's life.

I think of this with my wife who I often turn to look at and am so filled up with wonder and enthusiasm and thankfulness that I get to live side by side this person all my days.

Someone recently told me that in the Bible there are double the number of commands for husbands to love their wives than there is for wives to submit; six to three.

And yet this union or this excitement for a lifelong commitment reminds us of the even greater union we have with Christ that will transcend our days on earth. And so, God has prepared man for this union in a similar way and he sees his union with man in all the same (and more) excitement and anticipation of a wedding day. I am so blessed. I am so loved.