The Sweetest Thing

This one's been a little while coming! Its started with some usual musing on life and love and why and was furthered by Mark Foremans' 'Wholly Jesus' which is a truly interesting and thought-provoking read!

I caught up with a friend around Easter who has met the man that she fully intends to marry - and I'm soo happy for her...she's had some rough times over the last few years - she more than deserves this and furthermore; despite the fact I've never met the guy, I get the feeling this one's here to stay.

Update: They're now engaged!! :)

For me; I am currently single, with no-one on the 'radar' and I'm loving it!
But you know, this doesn't stop the pondering about
'how will you ever know if someone is THE one??'

forgive me for raising such a predictably female topic....but from a just a few experiences in my fleeting 20yrs on this beautiful planet, this is one of those topics that just never leaves us alone.

To be honest, from the various discussions I've had with a number of different people about how you find that one person I've realised that:
sometimes you KNOW
sometimes you reach the conclusion that there's simply no one else you'd rather be with
sometimes you can imagine yourself growing old with that person happily and healthily
and
well..pretty much everything else in between.


Everyone is either discussing, thinking, pondering, arguing, or passing on wisdom about love.

Discussions permeate throughout society, across the globe, crisscrossing cultures; affecting everyone from the richest and most famous to the impoverished individual scraping themselves a living.

Over the centuries an endless number of songs, movies and plays have been written; philosophies theorised, conversations analysed, words agonised over, unions of the purest joy witnessed and heartbreaks of the greatest sorrow endured.

Love is, on some level the lifeblood of every being on this planet

The well being of so many people, at this very moment, is determined by the flow of love between them and others in their lives (or, too many times, the lack of it).

Which leads me to think of the greatest love of my life, the thing that nothing can top -- not even the most loving of husbands..


Ok, so I hear those puzzled looks you're throwing my way!

hold the phone, reeewind, take a breath, explain...

The thing is, even the most romantic of romances, heartfelt wedding vows and greatest physical attraction known to man will eventually be worn down in the everyday-ness of life;
we are after all only human and cannot hope to maintain some sickly fairytale saga going throughout the entirety of our lives...I mean, who would we be trying to kid!?!

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for getting married and at this point in my life I would say I would be disappointed not to get married.....but getting married with all its perks and good times does nothing to fill some of those gaps in an individual.

One human simply does not make another human complete..although they can certainly help!

The ultimate fulfillment of our desires is found in the God above who loves us, who sent his son to die for us - anything else that we try to fit in that space will simply never work.

Square peg, diamond -shaped hole sound familiar to anyone?!

In fact - it doesn't even have to be marriage or even the idea of a relationship....

The square peg could include anything from your ambitions and dreams to the salary you long to finally recieve - the paycheck which will end the chase for the next one.

The thing is, none of those square pegs is ever going to be enough.

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