Book Review

Have you read anything lately that revolutionized your life? Mark Merizan has and he wants to share it with you! "A Sacred Romance," written by Brent Curtis and John Eldredge, is about understanding that God is pursuing us rather than us having to pursue God. It is about God's involvement on the most intimate levels of the smallest details of our lives. Mark writes:

The Sacred Romance was, for me, a revolution in my understanding of my relationship with God. It was both totally new and unexpected while at the same time something I have known in my heart of hearts all along. It is a book on understanding that God is pursuing us rather than us having to pursue God.

It is a book about God's involvement on the most intimate levels of the smallest details of our lives. It is a book about how God really is "on our side" - not in a theoretical level, but in the deepest longings of our soul. That ache we all feel for something we do not know but feel we are missing - that is God speaking to us - the "Haunting" as the authors call it.

I remember just after I got the call that my dad had died, thinking that I was now an "orphan", wondering in my journal what it would have been like to really be an orphan, to never have known parents or family? And I imagined that such a child, without ever having known what it was he was missing, would have a longing for the love and belonging of a family. This is the "longing" that we all feel when we are quiet enough to admit it. The Sacred Romance puts that feeling in its proper perspective - we are indeed orphans who have never known what it is like to be in a home, yet sense that we were meant to have one.

The Sacred Romance is God calling us home.