I love
light! Before this summer I had
never really thought about it, but both color and light can touch my heart in
ways that nothing else can. I love
stars, I love the way rays of sun stream through the clouds, and I love
watching fire in the fireplace.
The brilliant oranges and reds that fade to golden yellows in sunsets
and sunrises wow me. When I take
time to stop and notice them, the sheer beauty of these things takes my breath
away.
This summer I
went through the book Captivating by John and Stasi Eldredge with a
friend. One of the chapters is
about how God puts things in the world around us to romance us. “God has written the Romance not only
on our hearts, but all over the world around us. What we need is for him to open our eyes, to open our ears
that we might recognize his voice calling to us, see his hand wooing us in the
beauty that quickens our hearts.”
It goes on to ask about what romanced your heart as a child? The main things I was able to come up
with were things in nature-falling snow, the smell of rain, streams, and lakes,
but the biggest one was light.
Light calls to us
and invites us in. Every metaphor
that uses light talks about the light being good and the darkness being
evil. One of the first things God
created was light and he saw that it was good. It makes sense that I love light too then. God created light and He liked it, and
then He created me in His image.
The God of the universe loves me, and He made my heart. He knows what wows me, what I love, what
takes my breath away. And it is
sooooo amazing that every time I see a sunset, or a flower bed bursting with
color, or a tree covered with bright yellow leaves, its God reminding me that
He loves me and cherishes me and that He wants to romance my heart.
Light and color
are what speak to me, but those aren’t the only things that God uses to speak
to us. What romances YOUR heart? The
smile on a child’s face? Books
that you read and movies that you see?
A song that you hear? God
knows what speaks to your heart, and he sends reminders daily that He loves
you. We just have to be able to
set aside the busy-ness and the pain of life and remember to look for them.
“Every song you
love, every memory you cherish, every moment that has moved you to holy tears
has been given to you from the One who has been pursuing you from your first
breath in order to win your heart.”
“This romancing
is immensely personal. It will be
as if it has been scripted for your
heart.”
