Inspired by lyrics from “Rising in Love” by David RothI always find it surprising, the way people say that they’re falling in love when I always thought I was rising, floating right off of the ground and reaching something that I only have dreamed of. I’m not falling at all; I am rising in love.
Everyone talks about tying the knot, … but the feeling of love should be freeing – lifting each other up instead of giving one another a shove. We won’t be falling at all; we’ll be rising in love.
How do you let love grow? You’ve got to give it a chance when you’ve found it. We won’t be falling at all; we’ll be rising in love.
The deeper the river, the greater the trust and the more that we’re rising above.
We won’t be falling at all; we’ll be rising in love.
Responsive Reading for February 19
“King Solomon loved many foreign women . . . from nations with which the LORD had forbidden the Israelites to intermarry, ‘because,’ he said, ‘they will turn your hearts to their gods.’ But Solomon fell in love with them” (I. Kings 11:1-2).
I always find it surprising, the way people say that they’re falling in love when I always thought I was rising, floating right off of the ground and reaching something that I only have dreamed of. I’m not falling at all; I am rising in love.
Samson “fell in love with a woman . . . whose name was Delilah …. She … shaved off his seven locks of hair. Then she began to mistreat him, for his strength had left him …. But the hair of his head began to grow as soon as it was shaved off” (Judges 16:4-22).
Everyone talks about tying the knot, but I have a hard time agreeing with the way that we bind up the love that we’ve got, when the feeling of love should be freeing. Lifting each other up, instead of giving one another a shove. We’re not falling at all; we are rising in love.
“As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, and the sheep of Laban, he went up, rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well, and watered Laban’s sheep. Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud…. Jacob served seven years for Rachel, yet they seemed to him like a few days because of his love for her” (Gen. 29:10-20)
How do you let love grow? You’ve got to give it a chance when you’ve found it. A bird in your hand will stay until you start to close your fingers around it. We’re not falling at all; we are rising in love.
Abraham said to his servant, “‘The LORD, in whose presence I have always walked, will send his messenger with you and make your errand successful, and so you will get a wife for my son [Isaac] …. One day toward evening … as [Isaac] … looked around, he noticed …. Rebekah, too, was looking about …. and when she saw him … she became his wife. In his love for her Isaac found solace …” (Gen. 24:40-67).
Love is the river whose waters we test and a measure of where we are going. But you never can step in the same river twice for the water is constantly flowing. But the deeper the river, the greater the trust and the more that we’re rising above. We’re not falling at all; we are rising in love.