I choose you

I choose to love ...
Even when I'm not sure what love really is. Pondering if the way my culture has shown me, is what I should embrace. Half not believing love is true, or will last because it only seems to lead to unhappy endings or unrealistic ones.
I choose to love ...
Even when it scares me. Giving out my heart means beginning a tie that goes deep to my soul; worrying if it would be taken care of on the other end. Or would it be left bruished, abandonded, battered.
I choose to love...
Even when that means stepping out of my comfort zone, which I have been safely and securley resting in. No worries nor troubles; just me. Because stepping out would mean being vunerable, and I don't know if I'm ready to be put on center stage.
I choose to love...
Even when I fail at it. When I'm told I'm not good enough, that I'm inexperienced and have the ability to break someone else's heart. As I realize its not all about me, but I hold delicate hearts of those around me.
I choose to love...
Because you chose to love me. Not only 2000 years ago, but continually. At a time when I was selfish and only looked out for my own feelings. You put your own feelings of betrayal aside and continued to draw me in.
You chose to love me...
From the day I was imagined and brought to life as a canvas receives paint. You knew the past, you know the present, and you hold my future. You will not leave me until I have become the beautiful masterpiece you began.
You chose to love me...
By showing me that love isnt something to fear, but somthing to cherish, that each and every smile in my life is a hand wrapped gift from you to show me just how much you love me.
You chose to love me.
By paying the ultimate price, giving up not a wage, but the ultimate price. Yourself. So that I can live knowing what life is. You have made a way for me to enter into your dwelling place.