Tonight I went out to dinner with my better half. We were completely lame and did exactly what most people would have expected us to do. Talk about science and business models and raising our boys to become good men. But we had a beer and calimari and listened to live music. The weather was nice and we held hands and walked.
Sometimes love is simple and easy to understand. It's like your favorite jeans or jamming out in the car when your favorite song comes on the radio. It's so easy to recognize. You look at it and say... that's love. It's especially easy to see in old couples who have been together forever. There just something uncomplicated about it. Love.
That doesn't make it easy. Being married to this man for nearly 10 years, birthing 4 children and working together side by side at our startup has certainly had it's share of ups and downs. Love also looks like forgiveness, patience, and acceptance. It looks like sacrifice and commitment. It looks like foolishness and a swallowing of your pride. Every day of working on it together is another layer adding to the depth. Until the give and take is seamless. One ends where the other begins.
The Christian view of God has a perfect relationship at the heart. If you take love to the fullest, you end up with the Trinity. One but three. Three but one. Love perfected.
God invites us into relationship. Like marriage, faith isn't easy. Day by day letting go, trusting, growing, listening, praying. But it isn't a toil any more than marriage is. When I look at people who have a deep, mature faith, I see the something similar to an old couple's love.... or like something that has been really well designed. It's simple, majestic, beautiful, easy and comfortable. We end where God begins and vice versa. Like my marriage, my faith is still a work in progress. Some days easier than others.
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