Day 33: A Wish Right Now

Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars?

I could really use a wish right now.

For the record, I don't like B.O.B's version, so if you want to hear my a decent version of the song go check out 95North on youtube. Anywho...

What. A. Week.

I can barely sleep. I can't focus on work or school. I'm giddy and hopeful and smiling and joyful and laughing and enjoying life. I'm enjoying being human I don't know. In some ways I feel like for the past coupla years or possibly even my entire life, I've just kinda been a fly on the wall, and now all of a sudden I've just come alive and it's an absolutely amazingly wonderful awesome smashing brilliant (et al) feeling! It's like, "wow!". Vicodin and Morphine don't do this. This is a purely new feeling that is just like.... Dang!

This is the power of love! This is what we've all preached about from pulpits as people go to hell in droves.

This whole idea of wooing has gotten me back to thinking of how a man should love a woman, and my conclusion was that a man should love a woman in the way that God loves us (which is actually Biblical. "Wives submit to your husbands and husbands, love your wives as Christ loves the Church.") This is the fun part. How exactly does God love? I mean, "God is love, and Love is real" (mewithoutYou) is one of the common rallying cries of modern evangelical Christianity. We say He's Love, but most people will also fail to give you a concrete definition of Love just between us humans, which pales in comparison to the way that God loves us. But how exactly does He love us?

Ted Dekker (bless his heart) devotes literally every book to focusing on a singular theme - God's love for man. In Black he summed it up probably the best (and certainly least cliche of them all) when he wrote the following.
"He chooses. He pursues. He rescues. He woos. He protects. He lavishes." (Kudos to him for using the word "lavish" before it became popular. . . again?) There is so so so so so so SO much more to how He loves, but for the purposes of my point, it will do.

To me, this is the perfect example of how a man should go after a girl.
Choose: Pick a girl and and chase her to the world's end (and not the cheesy "Let's float over the edge in our boat and hope that we land in the afterlife so we can rescue the hilariously funny Johnny Depp". I'm talking the real world's end, where there's nothing left alive). Wait... this step is choice. Choose. Since you have to choose and not select a list, you have to make that choice count. Pick a God-fearing beautiful woman that makes your toes tingle and your mouth curve into a smile. Choose.

Pursue: This is the world's end part. Pursue! Nobody can really tell you how to pursue, but you must pursue and chase and surprise and never give up. Never. I won't exactly say pursue through several refusals, since there has to be a line, but definitely give a dogged pursuit.

Rescue: We can't really rescue so much as He can, so. . . be creative.

Woo: Woo her! Be who you were meant to be. If you show up as Prince Charming, she won't necessarily fall in her plate, but you will still have to win the maiden's heart. So win the maiden's heart. Find some way to sweep her off her feet emotionally without doing it physically. Once again be creative.

Protect: Protecting nowadays is rather strange, and once again I think He has ya beat. Be creative.

Lavish: Be creative once again. No one can tell you how to lavish, but just think about He lavishes you.


I know how I would woo. I know how I'm going to be doing all of this, if it's directed towards the individual in mind. I don't know. It just comes naturally.