The haunting and romance
Themes from a Sacred Romance
There exists in our lives a Haunting that draws us. It is like..the scent of a flower we haven't found. An echo of a tune we have not heard. Images and visions of a country we have never visted. This longing, yearning for a Something elusive that we can't quite grasp, that slips away just when we have gotten a tantalising glimpse of it. We hear it through old familiar songs, see it in the eyes of special men or women, feel it in special moments of intimacy and connection, experience it in the enigmatic attraction to nature and beauty. When we think back about such moments, we feel a deep-rooted longing tinged with shades of sadness and regret. We wish to revisit these moments long gone, recreate the feelings experienced.
The Haunting also appears as a nagging doubt in our lives, as a whisper, that though all is going steadily in your life, that there is "something more, something yet unfufilled". We experience this like a person who cannot help but meet the gaze of another not his/her partner, feels a tremour and then quickly looks away.
Sometimes we are unable to bear this, and we try to kill off that voice in our hearts. We try our best not to hear it, or let it speak. We re-double our efforts to continue with our normal lives, throw ourself into work, drugs, parties alcohol. Church, bible studies and group meetings. And sadly, more often that not we succeed. The voice in our heart grows more and more silent in that stifling atmosphere. It stops speaking to us of dreams and longing, and it's replaced instead with pragmatism and efficiency. But because we were nade for something deeper than this world can offer, the Haunting can never really be extinguished. It still whispers to us in rare moments when it can get through our guard: in the early hours of morning, the late stillness of the night, through dreams, through romantic "happily-ever-after" movies that gets us in a sappy mood, a beautiful sunset, the laughter of children.
What then, is this Haunting trying to draw us to? It is gently nudging us to the realization that there is more that the life we see, prompting us to seek in area after area for something we only have the slightest of ideas of. It is actually trying to engage us in a Romance. Some of us try to find that Romance in sex, parties, social gatherings, travelling, hobbies, adrenaline, and especially in romantic love, where when the feeling of Romance goes, we try and recreate it all over again with someone different. We can taste shades of the Romance through these things, but it is not in them, and trouble arises when we make that mistaken assumption and chase after them looking to fufill that soft but inexhorable Haunting. But the Romance we were meant for is a Sacred Romance. We are being seduced by none other than the Great Romancer.
Sebastian's response to Ariel : the most valuable lesson life has taught me thus far..Is that we were made for more than the world has got to offer, and that there's more to life than this life.
There exists in our lives a Haunting that draws us. It is like..the scent of a flower we haven't found. An echo of a tune we have not heard. Images and visions of a country we have never visted. This longing, yearning for a Something elusive that we can't quite grasp, that slips away just when we have gotten a tantalising glimpse of it. We hear it through old familiar songs, see it in the eyes of special men or women, feel it in special moments of intimacy and connection, experience it in the enigmatic attraction to nature and beauty. When we think back about such moments, we feel a deep-rooted longing tinged with shades of sadness and regret. We wish to revisit these moments long gone, recreate the feelings experienced.
The Haunting also appears as a nagging doubt in our lives, as a whisper, that though all is going steadily in your life, that there is "something more, something yet unfufilled". We experience this like a person who cannot help but meet the gaze of another not his/her partner, feels a tremour and then quickly looks away.
Sometimes we are unable to bear this, and we try to kill off that voice in our hearts. We try our best not to hear it, or let it speak. We re-double our efforts to continue with our normal lives, throw ourself into work, drugs, parties alcohol. Church, bible studies and group meetings. And sadly, more often that not we succeed. The voice in our heart grows more and more silent in that stifling atmosphere. It stops speaking to us of dreams and longing, and it's replaced instead with pragmatism and efficiency. But because we were nade for something deeper than this world can offer, the Haunting can never really be extinguished. It still whispers to us in rare moments when it can get through our guard: in the early hours of morning, the late stillness of the night, through dreams, through romantic "happily-ever-after" movies that gets us in a sappy mood, a beautiful sunset, the laughter of children.
What then, is this Haunting trying to draw us to? It is gently nudging us to the realization that there is more that the life we see, prompting us to seek in area after area for something we only have the slightest of ideas of. It is actually trying to engage us in a Romance. Some of us try to find that Romance in sex, parties, social gatherings, travelling, hobbies, adrenaline, and especially in romantic love, where when the feeling of Romance goes, we try and recreate it all over again with someone different. We can taste shades of the Romance through these things, but it is not in them, and trouble arises when we make that mistaken assumption and chase after them looking to fufill that soft but inexhorable Haunting. But the Romance we were meant for is a Sacred Romance. We are being seduced by none other than the Great Romancer.
Sebastian's response to Ariel : the most valuable lesson life has taught me thus far..Is that we were made for more than the world has got to offer, and that there's more to life than this life.
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