"Romance is that sense of adventure and daring and surrender that comes into our life when we have a vision worth living and dying for."(R. Rohr "Radical Grace" p. 233)
Many people when compiling their summer reading lists will joke about looking for something beyond the usual "romance novel." That genre is a pretty easy read and generally escapism, but doesn't call forth in us something greater.
When we look at the great romances of our lives there is a real sense of adventure and daring. Taking that risk of entering into a relationship with another person. When the romance is truly deep then you know that the vision of yourself with that other person is one where you would really be the most alive with them and willing to die for them.
What is the vision of your life that is worth living for? What is that "pearl of great value" that you'd sell everything to have?
If our lives are void of romance, that adventurous, daring and visionary kind. The type that calls us out of our cocoons, we may as well be dead.
I hope you have some romance in your life, even the gushy kind. But especially the kind of relationships that make life worth living.
Blessings,
Ed
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