For My Love

I'm pretty sure most of my readership is female, but to all the guys out there, I'm just going to go ahead and apologize for this one. My girl heart is full of mush right now. It happens. 

Well, it happens when I create an itunes genius playlist off of In Christ Alone by Bethany Dillon/Matt Hammitt on a quiet morning bike ride to work. Another Dillon tune came on, For My Love. The lyrics could have so easily been written out my own heart: 

Walk towards me
I want to hear 
The heavens singing over you
When you breathe
And look at me
I want to be captured by you

Gaze into my eyes
And let me know you’d fight
Thousands, for my love
Slip your hand in mine
Ask me to dance with you tonight
Just ask me for my love

I want to hide
What’s deep in my eyes
I’m scared to be known by you
But when I turn my head
 And see you there

I want to be pursued

Gaze into my eyes
And let me know you’d fight
Thousands, for my love
Slip your hand in mine
Ask me to dance with you tonight
Just ask me for my love

A dream I won’t wake from
A story that will never end
The ground your feet walk on
Let me be there, let me be there

Gaze into my eyes
Let me know you’d fight
Thousands, for my love
Slip your hand in mine
Ask me to dance with you tonight
Just ask me for my love

Gaze into my eyes
Let me know you’d fight
Thousands, for my love
Slip your hand in mine
Ask me to dance with you tonight
Ask me for my love

I especially like the line, "I want to be pursued". I think that's a quality God gave all women, whether we realize it or not. It makes us feel cherished and desired. We want to be won. I also really relate to the first verse, when she says she wants to hear the heavens singing over her guy, and to be captured by him. To me, it expresses a desire to see a man consumed by Jesus, striving to be a man after God's own heart. The idea of being pursued by a man submitted to the will of Christ, being transformed into His image speaks to a desire of my heart. So beautiful.