The Look of Love

"Turn your eyes away for they overpower me..." Song of Solomon 6:5a

I love my husband's eyes. Most of the day they are behind little expensive portholes. He needs corrective lenses, though, and I understand since mine are soft contact lenses that I wear almost every day. I rarely see his eyes without glasses, but I love them and the way they look at me. Most of the time, anyway.

I've wasted so much time trying to make him see things the way I do, but I can't. Not exactly. It is during those times that I insist that I see things better than him that I get myself into the most trouble. This communicates disrespect and distrust which makes my love blurry and hard to see. It's like I got his glasses dirty. When I apologize sincerely and with humility, and there is forgiveness, then the careless smears get wiped clean away and he is able to see my love in my words.

Lord, help me to recognize the look of love in my husband's eyes, and to recognize my mistakes in showing him my point of view without consideration of his. I thank you that his eyes see me with so much grace, patience, and beauty, no matter how I think I appear. May we both always look through lenses of clear and pure love.

~ Glory