Friday, September 30, 2005

many waters cannot quench love

Since I am at the beginning of my journey with this blog I thought I would share with you the meaning of the blog address.
After Jesse's wedding ring got picked out, I thought to myself that it would be wonderful to put an inscription on the inside of his ring. I wanted it to be a secret too. After much consideration I decided to ask what was his favorite verse was. Actually I sort of already knew what it was and I knew that I didn't want to use it. So I looked up different verses and had this little spill ready to say about them. As I thought, his favorite verses weren't what I thought "romantic". So I launched into different verses and what they meant to me.
One such verse was Song Of Solomon 8:6-7.

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death: jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. (KJV)

I told him that it had been explained to me that no matter what happens true love will still be there. After a few more comments back and forth we ended the conversation.
So after the "planned" conversation I went to the jewelry store where we had boughten both rings and had them engrave "Sol 8:6-7". I thought that if I put SOS 8:6-7 that it would look more like we needed help.
I kept it a secret up until either the week or the day before the wedding. Then Jesse said "That's why you were talking about those verses".
As we were discussing what my blog address could be I mentioned a few ideas such as "Elephant collector" I love soccer" stuff like that. I noticed Holly's address and thought that I could do my life verse Ps 32:8 but then thought "Thou shalt guide me with thine eyes" sounded too much like hers. That is when I thought about Song of Solomon 8:6-7. So we looked up the verses and read them and ... well... the rest is history.
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On a side note know for those of you who want to know:
Batteries are charging.
So beware, once Jesse can show me what to do with the camera and the computer then you will be seeing pictures of my little, adorable kittens and cats.

Have a good day.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

ooo...that was sweet. =) On John's original ring had ILY - Rebecca put on it.

Glad to hear those batteries are a chargin'. =)

Tammy said...

That is really sweet, Corine. I wanted to have something engraved on Kevin's ring, but I ran out of time and money before the wedding.