His banner over me is love.

I think I will get another tattoo while I am home. It is almost a new year and for heaven's sake, I am ready to leave last year behind. I have grown so much in the last twelve months sometimes it doesn't seem real.

This year was about love. I learned what it is and what it is not. I learned how to fight for it and be fought for. I learned about the difference between His love and his love.

In a perfect world, none of these lessons would hurt. But goodness knows, this is not a perfect world.

What I have learned the most, is the real love, His love, does not leave. It does not stop. It does not fail. It does not quit.

It was there last December and it is here this December.

Through all of it, I am His and He is mine.

Without question.

That was really the inspiration for the name of this blog.

"I am my beloved's and He is mine." -Song of Songs 2:16

I am His beloved and to be that I must learn to (be)loved.

So, I think I will get II:XVI (for the verse, 2:16) on my wedding finger, because even when (and if, I suppose) I am married His love will always be closer than his love. The tattoo will always be closer than the ring.

This little post let you in on how I think more than I intended. Hmm.

Here we go. New year, new lessons.