I'll be in love with you...

 

Holy Family Sunday is meant to remind us that God has always and always will desire to be in relationship with us.  This song, by Dan Fogelberg, encourages us to remember that God's eternal love stretches not only far, far into the future, but also back to the beginning of time, meeting us in the here and now with all its power and intimacy.

   Longer than there've been fishes in the ocean,
   Higher than any bird ever flew,
   Longer than there've been stars up in the Heavens, 
   I've been in love with you

   Stronger than any mountain cathedral
   Truer than any tree ever grew
   Deeper than any forest primeval
   I am in love with you

   I'll bring fires in the winters
   You'll send showers in the springs
   We'll fly through the falls and summers
   With love on our wings

   Through the years as the fire starts to mellow
   Burning lines in the book of our lives
   Though the binding cracks and the pages start to yellow
   I'll be in love with you
   I'll be in love with you

   Longer than there've been fishes in the ocean,

   Higher than any bird ever flew,

   Longer than there've been stars up in the Heavens, 

   I've been in love with you

With thanks to Fr. Eunan McDonnell for suggesting this meditation in God Desires You.

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