Wonder and Romance

The other day I saw this film called “The importance of being Earnest” and it was a very typical chick flick. Not very remarkable, in fact I would not recommend it to anyone I can think of. However, there was a little line that caught my attention for some reason. One of the men stated they were going to propose to a girl, to which his friend said he would end all romance. He added that “mystery is the essence of romance”, or something to that effect.

It is a common idea: marriage kills romance, like study kills the love of the subject. We humans seem to be very fond and good at this. But I am thinking that true love can never stop being in awe of another. I suspect so because we are made in God’s image, therefore we are dynamic. Is it when we box another in that we loose our wonder of them? And what then is it to “box” someone in?

Anyway, regardless of what it means to box another in, I will continue to believe that marriage can be romantic, because I believe in a very romantic God. In fact, I will put forth that marriage is the one place where the deepest human romance has the possibility to be full. It is probably comparable to a well loved place, like the Cabin. It is as if everyone is claiming that the best vacations are the ones where people visit new places and where the senses are overwhelmed with novelty. But this is not true at all. The cabin in Flagstaff is by far the most mysterious and best place to vacation because I have been going there since I was a child. Romance must be the same way: the more you know the more wonder-full the person becomes.

Otherwise I sincerely doubt that God would be fond of marriage.