closing the gap

We were at a water park with lots of people around us. Still, though, his hands found my body.

Random touches in hidden moments--I felt like a Newly-in-love again.

Our overnight at our family's little camp on the lake was cut short by a day.
My groom had a purpose--he wanted his bride.

It takes effort to live this way--to deliberately choose togetherness.

And it isn't about the feeling. It's about the staying. It's about the remembering and reaching.

There's a space we allow in between us as life *whirls and twirls* around us.
And the *reaching* {for another}, closes up the gap.

Deliberately choosing to reach a little further and snuggle up a little closer, awakens the sense of touch as if she were newly-born.

This life really can be lived closely together, as one.

And that, my friends, is what this past week's vacation has done to me--it has reminded me of the closeness of being newly-in-love, the never-wanting-to-stop touching and reaching, and how it evokes truth of *being wanted.*

My groom and I live most days in awareness that our moments together aren't our own.
We kiss and hug, saying I love you--even just to go to the store.
But, space tends to open wider as the days peel back layers of responsibility.

A week's vacation from the office covered us with a marriage-quilt of togetherness. 

Our Boy-Man is at an age that changes the dynamic of our relationship with each other. It's a little easier to do more things in a together kind of way.

While our boy stole a moment by himself playing without our lessons as his constant, we unwrapped a moment of lying together on the carpeted office floor--talking about life and home, and really simple-ish nothingness. It was the *choosing* that mattered.

We seized it this week--the closing of the gap. 

Sometimes a vacation helps us remember it takes *work* to live-together, and there can be Joy in the office.

We savor the last drippings of the served up deliciousness of summer and even though life will begin to *whirl and twirl* a little faster, we are reminded that we can keep close and live this life, Together.

We can remember Today was birthed from our early-in-love story of Grace.

It truly makes all the difference in my living when I pay attention to my groom's reaching...when I feel his touching...when I choose to place him as more important than my rushing on to the next thing, and pause to reach for him.

Love isn't a feeling...
but, unwrapping the feelings of being wanted,
and seizing the truth that I. am. {wanted}...
This is *freedom* for the living. 

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Gratitude for {Grace}...

...fun spent together...

...space in our days to just work on *us*...

...lazy summer days...

...the experience of being in the moment...

...being wanted...

...the intimacy of *communicating*...

...drippings of summer's sweetness...

...anticipation of another week together...



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