Fairy Tale Love

It never fails that every year at Creation Fest God gives me more peace about finding "the one." (Really...Is that the best way I could say that? Ugh... I sound like... never mind.) Since my Junior High Sunday School teacher taught me I have prayed for my future spouse and asked God to guide him, protect him, and draw him nearer to Himself every day. But still the things I see discourage me. The relationships I see around me are frightening and disheartening. It seems the men of this world are disappearing and the women have followed suit. We are left with a bunch of boys and girls whose entire lives only scratch the surface of what love truly means when pertaining to a man and a woman. Seeing true young men of God actually hurts me more than anything right now. In fact, it makes me sick. Where are they? Far and few inbetween? But I still cannot get enough of them. Their leadership and influence is unlike any encounter you could ever imagine. You know why? Because in their imperfect lives, Jesus' light is pouring, overflowing from them in such a way that you have no choice but to know the truth that is God. To meet someone with that absolute surrender, to fall in love, that is my prayer. I do not want someone who is unsure of their Savior and doubtful of their Creator. Yes, we will all struggle, but does your life revolve around your doubt? How could I ever be led by anyone whose life is full of mistrust and of the world? I can't. "Greater is He that is within me than he that is in the world."
There once was a time, I think, when people admired the love two people shared in fairy tales. I am not speaking about Disney, here. I am speaking about the passionate endless love that can conquer any obstacle, move any mountain, take you across an ocean, cause you to be willing to die, make you know when you look in the one another's eyes there is no one else, and turn your life into the most incredibly epic journey since the beginning of time. Most do not even pay any mind to this kind of love let alone desire it in their own lives. Convenient times, convenient love? What a sad existence. Jesus has this love for us and intends the same for a man and a woman. I will find the love of my life and we will live according to the incredible life the Lord has planned. There is no doubt I will find my fairy tale love. Because what we believe in this day is fairy tale just very well should be reality.