Expressing 

Communication is key to any relationship. Without exchanging information, feelings, thoughts or ideas between people, there is little to no connection. Without a connection, there is no relationship.

There are a variety of ways to inform others and receive from others our ideas, thoughts, and feelings. Podcasts, blogs, texts, emails, phone calls, hand written notes and letters sent through the mail can carry our message to someone. But, when it comes to expressing my utmost feelings, ideas and thoughts to someone that I love, I believe that face to face communication is the best method. 

Sitting down next to my husband where I see the expressions on his face while expressing what is on my heart has proven to be the best method of letting him know my innermost thoughts and feelings. But, exposing what is near and dear to my heart to my husband puts me in an uncomfortable yet necessary place; susceptible to being hurt. 

My husband has always loved me, but he has not always understood me and being misunderstood hurts. Yet, over the course of our marriage, I’ve learned that if I stay open and honest with him, eventually, he gets what I’m trying to say.

Understanding each other deepens our connection, our relationship and our love for each other. I can only say that my initial discomfort in opening my heart to my husband has led to an immeasurable amount of contentment.

Perfect Love

I don’t think that it is a mistake that communicating with someone we love requires us to have an open heart. I think that is the way God designed us to be. 

Therefore, if susceptibility is a requirement in a person to person relationship, it can also, I believe, be the way God chooses to communicate with us; heart to heart.

Yes, God is unseen, but the yearning in our hearts is felt. 

After my father’s suicide, I was broken, wounded, and desperate. It took almost a decade for my eyes to open to God’s love for me. But they did. 

In my worst of worst moments, in my most powerless of powerless times, when hopelessness shrouded all hope, God showed up. And when God showed up, my heart understood that he understood me. God knew that my heart was broken, but not beyond repair. God felt my fear, but it did not scare him away. From that short encounter came my life long, earnest pursuit of God.  

Why Bother?

Why bother noticing how love is communicated? Everyone has an inner need to be loved. That universal need is not a mistake. It just makes way for us to be receptive to the love God had for us.