Let Your Heart Glance Up to Me

 For you created my inmost being;
    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,
    I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you
    when I was made in the secret place,
    when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be.
How precious to me are your thoughts, God!
    How vast is the sum of them!
Were I to count them,
    they would outnumber the grains of sand—
    when I awake, I am still with you.

(Psalm 139:13-18, NIV)

 

You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride;
    you have stolen my heart
with one glance of your eyes,
    with one jewel of your necklace.

(Song of Songs 4:9, NIV) 

 

“And this is the reason a man leaves his father and his mother and is united with his wife; the two come together as one flesh.”  There is a great mystery reflected in this Scripture, and I say that it has to do with the marriage of the Anointed One and the church. (Ephesians 5:31-32, The Voice)

 

The pilgrim worried that sometimes he would not have much time to care for his love-relationship with god. Then the Lord spoke to him and answered his unspoken question: 

"Do you have only one minute? Him it with quietness. Do not spend it in thinking how little time you have. I can give you much in one minute." 

The pilgrim sat by the water, and his dear Lord said to him: 

As the ripples of the river glance up to the light, let your heart glance up to me in little looks of love very often through the day. 

 

Amy Carmichael 

 

The old couple sad with each other in peaceable silence, and no signal was needed for the kettle to go on, or the tea to be poured, the fire tended to. 

 

'What do you find to do all the time, after all these years? ' someone asked the old lady, 'Don't you ever tire of each other's company?'

 

'Oh no,' she replied, 'You see, it's like this: I looks at him, and he looks at me, and we're happy together.'

 

(Northumbria, Aiden readings, Dec.7)