Walk towards me
I want to hear
The heavens singing over you
When you breathe
And look at me
I want to be captured by you

Gaze into my eyes
And let me know you’d fight
Thousands, for my love
Slip your hand in mine
Ask me to dance with you tonight
Just ask me for my love

I want to hide
What’s deep in my eyes
I’m scared to be known by you
But when I turn my head
And see you there
I want to be pursued

A dream I won’t wake from
A story that will never end
The ground your feet walk on
Let me be there, let me be there

--Bethany Dillon
"For My Love"

I have been listening to this song a lot in the last month or so...I love the words. It so accurately portrays what a girl wants deep down...someone to pursue her and love her purely. I love the imagery that Bethany uses with a guy walking across a room and choosing her to dance with. Out of all the other girls, he wants to dance with her. And whereas I know I long for that kind of love story on a human level, it happpens with God every single day. Every day He pursues me with reckless abandon and looks into my eyes and asks me to dance with Him. I wish I could say that everyday I accepted His hand and moved to the dance floor...but some days I come up with the most pathetic excuses...I'm too tired or I'm too busy or some other thing...and that breaks the heart of God. I can picture a guy watching a girl all night and finally working up the courage to walk across a room and asking a girl to dance and she says, "No, I'm too tired." I can picture the rejected look in his eyes and can't help but think that on some completely other level, that's how God feels everytime I don't accept His offer to dance. Life is a beautiful thing and sometimes I get too caught up in other things to realize that God truly is pursuing me every single day in every situation. He chooses me. He chooses you. And He's not a picky dance partner, He knows how to lead and will teach us to follow that lead.