Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

 ~ Song of Solomon 8:6-7 ~

My Valentine,

We’ve been married nearly fourteen years. I’ve been a mother for twenty one, a grandmother for two. Yet it’s taken this long for me to grasp the depth of unconditional love.

The beautiful reality of the hard stuff that challenges us to love unconditionally is freedom. Love is freeing. Can we choose to love and not be free? Can we be free and not love?

We’ve celebrated this day, this Valentine’s Day, with amazing home cooked food, with music, with red hot candy filled candle votives, with love letters in our new Mr. & Mrs. journal, with Resolutions. We’ve celebrated each other. It’s been the very best Valentine’s ever.

But this is why: because we chose to love. We said yes to the hard stuff that makes us want to quit.

It’s true—”many waters cannot quench love.” It grows with every yes, becomes more passionate, burns deeper within. This is true for the Lover of my soul. This is also true for you, my beloved.

I love you more today than ever before.

I’ve set you as a seal upon my heart with my pink My Husband Rocks t-shirt. {grins}

I’ll say yes a thousand more times this year. Yes, to the One who is jealous for us; the only One who can handle an emotion so cruel as the grave. Then I can say yes a thousand times to you. Because He won’t relent, neither will we.

Thank you for your unconditional love.

You rock my world.

I love you ♥