"Most true is it that 'beauty is in the eye of the gazer.' My master’s colourless, olive face, square, massive brow, broad and jetty eyebrows, deep eyes, strong features, firm, grim mouth, — all energy, decision, will, — were not beautiful, according to rule; but they were more than beautiful to me; they were full of an interest, an influence that quite mastered me, — that took my feelings from my own power and fettered them in his. I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously arrived, green and strong! He made me love him without looking at me." -Jane Eyre
My sweet friend recently posted a new blog about love. I was so moved by it, I decided to give my thoughts as well. The above quote is from the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. She is not a well known author to anybody but English geeks, of which I am. But this book is just so beautiful. Yes, it is a love story, which I'm typically not into, but this one was more. This is a true love story. One every girl is born with the desire to have. But, to me, there is one more beautiful than that of a human love. So here's another quote for you:
"For your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called."
-Isaiah 54:5
I don't know, maybe it's just me. But when I go to walk down the aisle in my white dress, I want the man that's standing at the end to know that he is third man I have loved. Because first, I fell in love with my sweet daddy. And then, I fell in love with my Heavenly Father. I have a feeling that won't be a big deal though. The man I marry will love me just as Christ has loved the church, of this I am sure.
"Love is patient. Love is kind..."
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