Sunday, September 27, 2009

the sacred romance

so earlier tonight i was sitting on my bed with my laptop, clicking around just being bored. the idea of being bored is starting to disgust me and i think it disgusts God too. how dare we be bored when we're living for Him? to me, it implies that life with God is boring but nooo, life without God is boring and also lifeless! anyhoo, i decided to look at my big ole book stack and see if there was a book that i could read. i initially picked out passion and purity by elizabeth eliot but before i took it out of the stack, the sacred romance by brent curtis and john eldredge (author of wild at heart and co-author of captivating). i had been reading this book last year but i think school started to pick up so i stopped reading it sometime along the way. from looking at the last page that i marked, i had gotten pretty far with this book but i really can't recall anything that this book was talking about.

it's a great book though and i think it may help me address some things that are quite pertinent in my life at the moment. it's all about getting to the heart of things and what that means...what God's heart means.

i was just telling my friend sally about how i think i tend to include a lot of unnecessary details when telling stories... the real point of my blog entry was to share a part of the sacred romance book but instead i had to also include the background story behind it -_- pastor mark driscoll is featured on a nightline special about the ten commandments and he talks about how we can idolize ourselves. this is apparent through all of the social networking websites and how we just wanna let the whole world know that we drank a decaf coffee this morning (pastor mark's example). he really does bring a good point and it made me evaluate myself because i can definitely share those kind of comments too. i think sometimes i spill those unnecessary details because i wanna talk about myself and just add more self-elevation, feed my pride. i'm not trying to be hard on myself, but just trying to keep it real.

i'm gonna watch myself now when i wanna change my facebook or aim/gchat status... i don't wanna throw out words of pride, shame, greed, complaining, resentment, bitterness, negativity... but instead i wanna throw words of love, encouragement, hope, faith, heart-issued matters... more of these kinda words need to fill our fb news feeds and buddy lists!

aaaanyway... so back to the sacred romance book haha. i really liked this one paragraph:

"Indeed, if we all listen, a Sacred Romance calls to us through our heart every moment of our lives. It whispers to us on the wind, invites us through the laughter of good friends, reaches out to us through the touch of someone we love. We've heard it in our favorite music, sensed it at the birth of our first child, been drawn to it while watching the shimmer of a sunset on the ocean. The Romance is even present in times of great personal suffering: the illness of a child, the loss of a marriage, the death of a friend. Something calls to us through experiences like these and rouses an inconsolable longing deep within our heart, wakening in us a yearning for intimacy, beauty, and adventure."

agape christian fellowship <3

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