I am God's and then yours. - when i am in love.
Lyrics
I want to go where his mind goes
I want to see what he sees in us
I want to feel what his body does
With my touch
I want to feel his heart on my chest
I want his babies at my breast
When he's tired, i'll get undressed
And give him somewhere deep inside of me to rest
Unclose my heart
Cause I want to let him in
Please God tell me
Did you make me for him?
Cause I'm trying to be your kind of woman
Your kind of woman
I called this substack Making Love (Songs) with the song component in brackets as a reference to the order i’ve learned things need to happen in for me.
Making Love first. Songs second.
If i’m not actively in the process of making love a way of being, in all the tiny details of my life, my songs just don’t sing to me. It tends to creep up on me in simple things. I notice when I haven’t opened my bedroom window in the morning to breathe in the birdsong, or light the hall candle and say a prayer or set the table for breakfast with the kids (and that persists for a few days in a row), I feel myself starting to slip into a more turned off than turned on relationship to my life.
To reinvigorate myself I always need to reconnect with nature, my body, my senses, my home - specifically my kitchen and my laundry room… my family all know now that if i’m on a mission in the house or packing the car for a spontaneous adventure together… a song is either on the way or i’m on my way back to a song!!
Creativity is a response to love and interestingly in terms of our mental and spiritual health it’s also the way back into love.
In my counselling work “bracketing” is something we do to contain an aspect of the clients process that we are highlighting as significant. The bracket is our way of capturing something that we are committed to coming back to later. Often in a session the client will be exploring something when another thing of equal significance pops into their awareness. To manage the inflow of information we bracket as a way to acknowledge the emergence of the new material without being distracted or derailed by it. But the critical component to this work is that we always come back to it, nothing gets lost.
Often in our lives there are things that simply need to be bracketed. Often these things hold immense significance for us, and the bracket can be a very helpful way of acknowledging what matters most, what needs attention and what we are committed to coming back to and completing without feeling that we’ve had to overlook or sacrifice something.
Today’s demo has been in a bracket for a few weeks now… which is why I called it (your kind of woman) in brackets! It’s a song that will probably be coming in and out of brackets for the rest of my life, as I explore and discover more and more of what it means for me to be God’s kind of woman. But this morning I managed to capture the recording with a refreshed heart, a renewed spirit and a clearer mind.
For me, the bracket offers the opportunity for patience and perspective while actively staying with the ongoing process of managing competing priorities, I hope it helps!
From Making Love (Songs), Clare x