Intimacy

For those of you who read this and know me well, I hope that you are aware that the first priority of my is to love, honor and lay down my life for my bride. That is also the major thrust of my purpose and vision for my life; I want to lead young men to to godly husbands and fathers.

I have recently plunged a new depth in loving my bride. If our marriage is a remote island, I have explored and found a never before seen lagoon with a water fall and crystal blue waters. I share intimacy with her like never before. I am not talking about a sexual intimacy, but a can't get close enough to her and can't hold her tight enough and can't express to her with enough vigor, my love for her.

As I hold her and read scripture to her while she and I fade into sleep I am engulfed in a passionate intimacy with her. As we fight and one of does something stupid and gets angry, I can't wait to hold her. As we watch our children grow and laugh and smile and cry, I am ever more thankful for her. When I bury my nose in the back of her and breath her scent in deep the intimacy grows.

This is intimacy with my wife. Well, this is a tiny portion of it and my weak attempt to take an intangible truthful feeling of intimacy and put it into words. That is to say it is something that is better experienced than explained.

God has shown himself to be a great weaver of life and teller of His story. God has given us sensations in this world to explore with our senses in these bodies in order that we might experience Him rather than have someone attempt to explain Him to us. One day, I was asked to explain intimacy with God. I failed in my attempt on that day. But the last few weeks as I have discovered this new lagoon in my love and intimacy with my bride, I have found an ability to say, "that is intimacy with God"