Dear bunnies,
This morning the coffee sat warm in my red cup, and I let my mind go quiet before it went anywhere else.
There is a verse I keep circling back to, the one about thinking on whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, think about these things. Today my mind landed on someone. I did not have to try. It just went there. And I will speak directly to this person in this letter.
So today, let me speak to you directly, in case you ever read this. I do not want this to confuse you. But I want to say that you, you are lovely and admirable.
I admire you like the way I admire some people around me and I admire you the most. Your heart, the way you relate to people’s feelings, the level of understanding you carry when you are with someone or listening with someone. To relate is not the same as to understand. Sometimes it is obvious you cannot relate to what a person is going through, not really, but you still know how to make them feel valued and seen.
Once you asked me if you were saying my name the right way. I still do not know why you asked. I only know that something in me softened when you did, and I think that is what I mean when I say you care in the details.
I love you and I like you. I mean I love people who carry a heart like yours. Not everyone can afford to have a heart like that, and I love that about you, and about anyone who has it.
I have known you for a couple of months. That is not very long. I am not sure I know you at all, not the whole of you, because a couple of months is not enough time to know a whole person especially that our engagement is just digital.
But somehow, in these months, I have seen your heart. Not all of it. Just enough to believe it is good, and to believe that what you are doing now and even what you are doing before, you are doing from the heart.
You are not perfect, of course. You want things done quickly sometimes, when I wish you would let them breathe. But even that does not undo what I see underneath.
Here is what I am hoping for you, quietly, the way I hope for the people I love. I hope you know Jesus. He is the only one who can build a heart like yours in a person, a heart that does not do things halfheartedly. Everything good I see in you, I believe He is somewhere behind it.
Whatever is lovely. Whatever is admirable. Today, it was you.
