One of my favorite Christian inspirational songs is Love In Any Language by Sandi Patti. This song speaks volumes to me. Everyone understands LOVE universally. Love is something everyone craves.
It fails to amaze me how after nearly 32 years I love my husband more now than the day I first married him. My DH tells me sometimes his heart tickles because he loves me so and we’ve both have experienced physically aching hearts when we’re separated.
According to e-How.com “When a person falls in love, the “happy” chemical dopamine and the “trust” chemical oxytocin increase to very high levels.” Perhaps this stimulates the tickling sensation my DH describes and the over-powering giddiness I feel. This article primarily deals with the effects of a broken heart, but it stands to reason that similar chemical changes occur within a person’s heart if they are madly in love, i.e longing, tickling, or giddiness impressions.
Recently, I read the words from first Peter commanding us to love deeply. How can the heart continue to love so much? This is totally perplexing to me. I feel like my heart is a sponge just soaking up more and more love for my DH as the years go by.
To love deeply extends beyond my DH, I learned. Once I became a mother of our first DD I could not imagine loving a child any more than I loved her. I selfishly worried I couldn’t begin to love another child equally the same, but I was wrong.
Somehow God instilled in me the ability to not only love equally but differently with all three of my children. Like with my DH, I continue to love deeply as the years pass with my children. Often times I find my heart aches, as I reflect on bygone years when they small. This will always be with me. Somewhere amidst my sadness, I sense gladness, as the Lord returns a smile to my heart.
My Thursday Two Questions are:
1. Have you ever experienced intense feelings of the heart from being in love for years?
2. Do you love anyone else other than your spouse with a deep love? I’m sure you can answer yes to this one, so really add something more.
Perhaps you noticed I answered these questions before listing them. I hope you’ll kindly leave your answers in my comments. I always make an effort in responding to every person and visiting their blog. Have a lovely Thursday!
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