Great quote; great movie.  I highly recommend it:

We get married because ... "because we need a witness to our lives.  There's a billion people on the planet, I mean, what does any one life really mean?  But in a marriage you're promising to care about everything: the good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things, all of it, all the time, every day.  You're saying, 'Your life will not go unnoticed, because I will notice it.  Your life will not go unwitnessed, because I will witness it.'  You can quote me on that if you like."
-Susan Sarandon as Beverly Clark in Shall We Dance

It's not just a marriage that works like that; that's God's relationship with His children.  He is our witness; nobody could ever care more deeply about every detail of our lives.

Awesome thought ...

"A Page is Turned"
Bebo Norman (Ten Thousand Days)

A page is turned by the wind to a boy in curly grin
With a world to conquer at the age of ten
But as history unfolds and the storybook is told
He finds salvation but not at the hands of man

And the God of second chance
Picked him up and He let him dance
Through a world that is not kind
And all this time, preparing him, the one
To hold him up when he comes undone
Beneath the storm, beneath the sun
And now a man, here you stand
Your day has come

A page is turned in this world to reveal a little girl
With a heart that's bigger, as it is unfurled
By the language in her soul, that's teaching her to grow
With a careful cover of love that will not fail

And the God of second chance
Picked her up and He let her dance
Through a world that isn't kind
And all this time, preparing her the one
To hold her up when she comes undone
Beneath the storm, beneath the sun
And grown up tall, here you are
Your day has come

Beneath the air of autumn, she took him by his hand
And warm within the ardor, she took his heart instead
And high upon the mountain, he asked her for her hand
Just for her hand

A page is turned in this life, he's making her his wife
And there is no secret to the source of this much life
When the grace that falls like rain is washing them again
Just a chance to somehow rise above this land

Where the God of second chance
Will pick them up and he'll let them dance
Through a world that is not kind
And all this time, they're sharing with the one
That holds them up when they come undone
Beneath the storm, beneath the sun
And once again, here you stand
Your day has come

-This song will be in my wedding somehow!  And if you haven't heard it, or haven't heard the album (Ten Thousand Days), I highly recommend both ... the album and the song : )  That's all I got ... !

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.   -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Homesick in Heaven

Flying Home

...Very likely she has always understood
what I have slowly learned...

that love is hard,
that while many good things are easy, true love is not,
because love is first of all a power,
its own power,
which continually must make its way forward, from night
into day, from transcending union always forward into difficult day.

And as the plane descends, it comes to me...
that once the lover
recognizes the other, knows for the first time
what is most to be valued in another,
from then on, love is very much like courage,
perhaps it is courage, and even
perhaps
only courage.

-Galway Kinnell, from Mortal Acts, Mortal Words

God, help me to fall in love with You--first and foremost.  Lord, let my focus, and my mind be so fixed on You that everything else fades away.  It's so easy to be on a spiritual high and to feel so close to You, but help me recognize that from every time like that, my relationship with You must make its way into difficult day.  Love is courage, Lord, it's a choice, and I choose to love You because You first loved me.  Help me be "desperate" like Riss has talked about; help me be "desperate" for a relationship with You like You are desperate (enough to send Your son to die) for a relationship with me.  God, You are so good to me, and I see that every single day when I take even one second to look!  Help me realize and aprpeciate the things that You do for me!  Lord, You are good! Because You love me!