I feel your breath on my heart and it prompts pen to paper for this letter.
You know how I feel but it’s all the stronger straight from ink pot pulling out heart words, spilling here for You.
I can’t describe my gratitude, but I try.
Right now, I try.
Your love, this intangible and visceral feeling no human soul can really fully experience – it wrecks me.
In all the best ways, it wrecks.
And I find myself revisiting your God-made-flesh words over and over
“He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said,
out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.“
Never did I imagine that would really happen, that I’d really feel Spirit soar through my body,
rolling it over and over, source most definitely the gut.
The energy center.
The place where I hold my strength and my pain.
Almost more so than my heart.
It always seems like gut is what hurts when doubled over with tears, good and bad.
It’s the belly.
But then there’s the heart.
You said it, it happened.
“And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts
by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.”
And oh, my God, it was definitely shed abroad. Heart knows no depth, no crevice, no folded over space missing Your love.
There most certainly is abroad going on.
Heart full.
Because heart is where the soul is.
Where I feel the pain so deeply.
Pain You’ve allowed. Pain You brought me to, pain You endured with me.
You shed abroad Your love on soul, marked a path tread by no one.
Sealed a fate formerly doomed and perched it upon the solid truth of redemption.
You are proud of it, You aren’t ashamed this soul calls you God. Healer. King. I Am.
All that, You.
All power, from You.
All given, freely.
All for me.
I love You, my King.
My Lover.
My All.
How do I count the ways.
To infinity and beyond.
***
By Arianne, from To Think Is To Create
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Theresa says
This was beautiful and a wonderful reflection to begin a day when I am not quite feeling so motivated or inspired…thank you.
Linda Stoll says
I love your letter to the Lover of your soul! I’ve discovered that there’s no better way for me to express myself to Him than journaling what’s true about me – and Him. The gratitude, the pain, the joy, the fear, the dreams.
So when I read your phrase “pen to paper,” my really heart resonated with yours … that’s what I entitled the postings of my journals a few years ago …
I’m honored to share them with you …
http://creeksideministries.blogspot.com/search/label/From%20Pen%20to%20Paper
rlynne says
Beautiful Arianne, just beautiful.
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Elisabeth says
How beautiful…I was brought to tears.
Craig says
This all reads like a “prompt”. It seems to pour straight from your soul. Thank you for teaching me that at Blissdom.
“Where I feel the pain so deeply. Pain You’ve allowed…pain You endured with me.” To think that all our pain, he shares, not SHARED, as in one day on the Cross, but shares NOW – because he loves us…
This was a perfect thing to read today.
Thank you
God Bless and Keep
Jen says
Ari,
Beautiful! A Psalm to your King.
Jen
domestic extraordinaire says
beautiful.
cate tuten says
Arianne, you are a Poet!!! So beautiful your words. The Master Poet flowing through you……Thank you for sharing your heart and your gift…………We’ve met by our Blogs before. I am here on Edisto Island part time…..Would love to meet sometime………Blessings to you sister-friend in Christ, Cate
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Wanda says
Yes, He is! And more!
I love that He loves me….even though, I’m flawed!
Nicole Harry says
This is such a beautiful letter!!! God will forever bless you with love, peace, joy and happiness.
Holley Gerth says
Words as beautiful as the writer herself…
David Willis says
I started to read this and got the feeling that I would miss something if I didn’t read aloud. It was very moving. Thank you for letting us all in on it.
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Andrea says
absolutely beautiful.
Jenn says
This is so beautiful and so profound! Thank you.
Anonymous says
i love it
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