Worth waiting for
Liz Crumlish
July 12, 2017
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Genesis 24: 62-67
62 Now Isaac had come from Beer Lahai Roi, for he was living in the Negev. 63 He went out to the field one evening to meditate, and as he looked up, he saw camels approaching. 64 Rebekah also looked up and saw Isaac. She got down from her camel 65 and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?”
“He is my master,” the servant answered. So she took her veil and covered herself.
66 Then the servant told Isaac all he had done. 67 Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he married Rebekah. So she became his wife, and he loved her; and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
All those covert looks
trying not to get caught
trying not to be obvious in the attraction
Hanging around for a glimpse
with butterflies in the stomach
Unable to eat, dreaming of what might be…
The knowledge, that this is not like other loves,
those mere infatuations fade into the background
in the face of real love
fun for a time and season
but incomparable when things step up a gear
in the serious business of love.
For then, there is something worth pursuing,
worth the work
worth fighting for
a light that refuses to be extinguished but that always shines through -
A flicker in the darkest of times
That wraps itself around and within, refusing to let go or give up.
Real, gritty, sometimes tough love that begins to look just a little like God.
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