Valentines Day

I can't help but notice, day by day the aisles of the grocery stores changing to suit the next Holiday.

I feel like just yesterday Christmas consumerism was lined up aisle by aisle. And I blinked - and suddenly there were hearts everywhere.

Tomorrow it will be lit up with green.

And the years go by and it continues and repeats.

Somewhere along my journey, I have strayed far from consumerism on the search to discover something that money could never buy.

- and that is to know Love, personally, and intimately.

This 'Valentines Day' I prayed that the Lord would show His Love to me in a way that consumerism couldn't.

Since He knows me and what my heart desires and needs - I simply prayed and released and forgot all about it.

About 9 hours later I was at work in a very noisy environment, couples were eating their meals and conversations were being had. I was doing dishes and suddenly realized that it had gotten really quiet.

As if a bubble had blocked out the noise - the people had left and all I could hear in the moment was a gentle tune coming from the speakers in the backdrop.

I had forgotten all about my prayer until this very moment -

and there it was -

right to my core -

".......I have died every day waiting for you - darling don't be afraid, I have loved you for a thousand years, I will love you for a thousand more..... "

Christina Perri's, A Thousand Years streaming gently through the soundwaves into my ears and into my heart and into my mind.

And my heart burst, and the tears fell.

The Lord revealed His love to me in a personal and intimate way, sound waves, that went to my soul and heard it as if He was singing it right to me Himself....

It reminded me that He surely is a personal and intimate God, and He surely knows what our hearts desire - and if our hearts happen to desire Him - He will reveal Himself to us in ways that surpass all understanding. ​