Love Letter 20050308

Psalm 90:17
"Establish the work of our hands"
Dearest Lady,

I was merely going to send you photo[s] and these other odds and ends, but I figured some thoughtful words might be appropriate and therefore should be added.

When I say I love you please hear more.I am saying more than three words. It ought to carry more weight than a light package of chocolates or bunch of pretty flowers.

When I say I love you, hear me say: "You are the most beautiful woman I've ever seen."

When I say I love you, hear me say: "I want to be very close to you."

When I say these three words please don't hear cliche. Hear phileo, agape, and eros all in one.
I love you, Katie. Please hear sacrifice: I want to give up much so that you might be nearer to the King. When I say I love you, hear my heart pushing you gently into His eternal embrace. Hear me say: "I see Christ Jesus in your loving service, I hear Spirit's power in your beautiful voice, I am brought nearer to Him by you.

Hear me say that I choose you.

There will be times when I say those words and I have nothing for them to stand on or nothing to back them up with. Please forgive me. There will be other times I say those words and I will not feel their truth; I will not always feel in love with you. But I will still love you.

Because I choose you. And I decide to love you. And I am commanded to love you. And He is leading me to love you. And He is teaching me to love you. And I long to love you. And it is my great desire to love you.

Forever.

May I have the honor and grand privilege to love a woman of God like you? May I love you, Katie?

I do. Katie, when I say I love you, hear me say simply that I LOVE YOU.

Yours,

Jason