LIVING OUT OF A BASE OF FEAR
“. . . O ur lives are not a random series of events; they tell a Story that has meaning. We aren’t in a movie we’ve arrived at twenty minutes late; we are in a Sacred Romance. There really is something wonderful that draws our heart; we are being wooed. But there is also something fearful. We face an enemy with vile intentions. Is anyone in charge? Someone strong and kind who notices us? At some point we have all answered that question ‘no’ and go on to live in a smaller story. But the answer is ‘yes’—there is someone strong and kind who notices us. Our story is written by God who is more than author, he is the romantic lead in our personal dramas. He created us for himself and now he is moving heaven and earth to restore us to his side. . . he seeks to free our heart from the attachments and addictions we’ve chosen . . .” d
John Eldredge’s book, The Sacred Romance , is profound. Briefly stated, he tells how most of us start off with a fairy tale view of life, that life will be wonderful and that we will live happily ever after. Then, he says, the arrows of life start to come. They pierce the heart and they shatter the dreams. What then begins to happen is that we start to live out of a base of fear: “When is the next arrow coming?” However, if we believe that God is the author of our story, the sacred romance if you please, then we already know there will be a happy ending to the story. Rather than living from one fear to the next we can begin to live out of a base of hope because God is the divine author. d
—John Eldredge, The Sacred Romance
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