A Fairy Tale Love

My sweet husband just rolled his eyes at me as I set up my daughters Elf on the Shelf last night.  I placed Bell (the elf) on the girls couch with some friends to read a book.  Only a hardback book would stay open...and the only hardback book I had was...Twilight.  Honestly my husband as no right to roll his eyes; he bought me the book! LOL
I do love my Twilight books because it got me back into my love of reading.  I had lost it in high school and only regained it back in 2009.  I read new books, old classics that I loved, but all of them had some main theme.  Love.  
With all these books and movies out there, its no wonder we long for a fairy tale love.  Yet we are told that this kind of love does not exist.  I know I haven't been alive as long as some, and I've only been married for seven years, but I believe in the kind of love these books and movies tell us about.  I am 100% head over heels in love with my husband.  What I feel for him I have never felt for anyone else and sometimes the intensity of it takes my breath away.  I'm sure people are rolling their eyes at this...but please...hold that eye roll for a minute!
The reason I believe in a love that is portrayed by characters such as Belle and Edward, Darcy and Elizabeth, Tris and Four, is because there was an example of this love displayed over 2000 years ago.  A love that was all consuming, selfless, intense.  A sacrificial love that cost a man his life.  
God loved us so much, that He sent His son down here to earth, to so us the example of God's love, and to give His life over to death to pay the price for our sins.  He then rose three days later so that one day, when we die our physical death, we are able to rise from death and live with Him forever.  What a love.
This is why I believe I can have a love these books talk about.  Because I believe in Christ, my foundation is His love.  When I joined my husband in marriage, it was a covenant made between him and myself; a covenant that represents the covenant between God and us.  
God has called me to love others as He loved me.  God loved me so much He gave his son; He saved my life.  That love is the foundation of my marriage.  
Yes my husband and I have had arguments, yes we have gotten on each others nerves; we are still human.  But no matter what, my love for him is not shaken, because I remember how much God loves me, how much God loves him, and that we are to love each other the same.  Marriage is suppose to represent the relationship between God and us.  
This is why I think some marriages struggle; we try to love based on a worldly concept instead of a biblical concept.  We need to love at our spouse through God's eyes; we need to see them as someone worth dying for.  Believe me, it can make all the difference in a marriage.
You know...now that I think about it...my love story is better than any of those books I read.