365 Project Day 256: Time with You

Canon 5D Mark ll, 50 1.2L, 1.6 aperture, 1/80 shutter, 500 ISO

There is no other place I would rather be than with you. You are home to my soul.

Tell me again about the vision you have, the things you know and want to know about God. I love your passion and conviction. It makes me feel safe knowing I am second to Him in your heart. Do you know I want to be like you, that I admire you deeply? Do you know how proud I am to be your wife?

How I love our nights that we set apart to be together! I know that when I am with you, I can be myself, and that I am loved. I can hardly wait to share stories of my day with you, and hear about yours. We laugh and find perspective. We walk, always touching. How I love your hands. My husband’s hands. Artist’s hands. Both strong and tender, like the hands of a shepherd.

I am so glad I pledged to give you my heart so many years ago. I think you have most of it now. I didn’t know it would be a journey, giving you all the pieces, the broken and the beautiful shards that make up all that is me, but you have willingly walked it. Now, it seems there is little left for me to hide from you. I no longer feel afraid. You know me, and I am so grateful.

Same time next week? I am so looking forward to it, my time with you.

 

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

~ EE Cummings