To my hopelessly romantic heart it sounds amazing. “Darling, don’t be afraid I have loved you for a thousand years…” to some that might sound creepy. I have died to that desire because I know it hasn’t been time yet, but I also know that when it is time it will be glorious and I know that in the meantime my love for you only grows day by day, even if I don’t yet know your face or your name, add one more day to the thousand years I’ve already loved you. The chorus! “I have died every day waiting for you…” sounds a bit depressing, right? Not at all! It is not so much that I have died because you aren’t here, it is that I have died to my desire for you to be here, right now, on my timeline. It may be a slow and potentially painful process but if we take it one step at a time, taking time to enjoy the little moments along the way then the beauty of it all can shine forth.I could go on about this song forever and I just might. Each day, each moment, each step we get one step closer to the person we are supposed to be and to the person that God intends us to spend the rest of our days with.
It reminds me a lot of not Myself (which was actually the first song I ever featured on this blog, fittingly enough). Ok, that’s not true, I don’t know if I could pick my favorite if you made me but this one definitely ranks pretty high up there. One step closer…I love this lyric perhaps the most. For me it is kind of like incense rising up in prayer, it is beautiful to behold and I love to watch it vanish, which is the same way I feel about those fears and doubts that seek to overtake us. Suddenly, in a majestical moment of clarity and divine intervention (at least when love is right) we see that person and somehow, some way, the doubt and the fear disappear and vanish into thin air.
Oh, the glorious feeling of your heart beating fast, and thanks be to God that it doesn’t just happen when you see that oh-so-cute someone! Then, as we know all too well, the fear sets in and we find ourselves asking how can we brave, where is that strength within us? Our pasts and the hurt from long-since-gone relationships threatens to overtake us and we begin to wonder how we can possibly love again when we are so darn afraid to fall.
#LOVED YOU FOR A THOUSAND YEARS MOVIE#
Despite the fact that this song was in a Twilight movie (which I usually ignore) I just can’t get over the beauty of it! Words can hardly express how much I’ve fallen in love with this song, which is exactly why it has been on repeat for days now.
Although it is titled A Thousand Years, they covered the Part 2 version featuring Steve Kazee.
I knew that I'd found a home for my heart beats fastĪll of my doubt suddenly goes away somehowĭarling, don't be afraid, I have loved youĪnd all along, I believed I would find you