You Are All I Want

draw me close to you
never let me go
i lay it all down again
to hear you say that i'm your friend

you are my desire no one else will do
'cause no one else can take your place
to feel the warmth of your embrace
help me find the way bring me back to you

chorus
you're all i want,
you're all i've ever needed
you're all i want
help me know you are near

This is one of my favorite worship songs. Anytime I hear it, I just want to stop what I'm doing and sing to my hearts content. I don't know about you but my focus is often distracted. This song always bring me back to center. It such an intimate song that it brings such an intense emotional response from me.

Intimacy comes from spending a lot of time with someone. Intimacy comes from allowing someone into the inter sanctum of your mind and heart and bearing everything, the good, the bad, the ugly, and the beautiful.

We have spent a lot of family time this week together and I've spent a lot of time alone with my husband in the evening that I almost feel like we're on another honeymoon, even though we sleep with a baby in our room. We are most definitely not alone in this house. But somewhere between all of the day-to-day living, I've nestled closer to my husband and it has been so sweet and fulfilling. It has been intimate.

I used to read a blog about a housewife and she was very negative, bitter, resentful, and totally dissatisfied with most of her life. While she loved her family and husband she didn't really have anything positive to say about it. I read it for awhile and then became disinterested because honestly she depressed me. I happened upon her blog again this week only to find out that her husband had had an affair, and now more misery topped her life because she was lost in trying to deal with it.

Here I am having a more intimate week with my husband and feeling so happy and content in our love to find out that another couple was not. They were hurting and looking for answers. I wept for them even though I don't know them and prayed that God would become their center again. And through that they would be reconnected and their love deeper for one another.

Draw me close to you. Never let me go.