Author: Jocelyn Chi (46 Articles)
Jocelyn is the founder and editor of Something Bleu Magazine. She is also a wedding and portrait photographer based out of Houston, TX.
I came across the following quote from Nancy Leigh DeMoss‘s book, A Place of Quiet Rest, recently. She writes,
“If we want to grow closer to someone – God or anybody – it means pressing hearts together. Learning how to communicate. Finding joy in each other. Searching out the other’s soul. A strong relationship is the weaving together of many shared experiences, some of which are serendipitous and off-the-cuff, others of which are structured and well-defined. Such things make for intimacy. Disciplining ourselves to spend regular time with someone, even with God, can be regulated, but not the intimacy itself.”
- Nancy Leigh DeMoss, A Place of Quiet Rest
She so beautifully describes what it looks like to pursue a genuine, intimate relationship with a holy and awesome God by describing what intimacy ought to look like in our most beloved friendships. Is this the kind of relationship you have, or want to have, with your spouse? Do you discipline yourselves to spend regular time with each other… or as she writes, “pressing hearts together” and “searching out the other’s soul”?
As with anything else requiring consistency over an extended period of time, this requires a bit of discipline. How are you going to commit to delighting in your spouse?
