Seasons of Love

Perhaps it's because it's currently wedding season, but I can't get the following thought out of my head...

I love watching young and old couples alike holding hands in the grocery store, opening the door for one another, referring to each other as "My Beautiful Bride" or "My Love." I enjoy seeing newlyweds that can't sit farther than a few inches apart at church. I love hearing "how we met" stories at the nursing homes. I find beauty in hearing that my best friend misses her husband when he's been gone but a day.

I'm beginning to sound like a creeper, so let me cut to the point...

While I am not another person's bride (yet), I still have an identity as a bride. I am part of the Bride of Christ. I want to live each day craving to be close to the Bridegroom - Christ. I want to draw nearer to Him everyday. I want to cling to Him when my world shakes. I want to tell those with open ears how we met. And yes, I miss Him even now, though He is not gone. I look so very forward to the day when I can be with Him in His kingdom.

Remedy Drive has a song called "Daystar" (from their "Magnify" album). Here are a few lines from it:

Hasten the day You come take Your Bride away. Send your cherubim chariots to carry the conquering children home to the Promised Land. Bright and Morning Star paint the sky so far with the colors from a dawn of an eternal dawn that will chase shadows away that will set up light upon a throne in the center of it all. So hear me call: "Heaven open. Sprinkle stardust in my eyes from the day that's dawning. Hear me call. Rise the Daystar in my heart. My King is coming!"


I love it. :)