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Cal · 02-13-2015, 07:48 AM

Everyone wants excitement. It's one reason romantic love is so popular with the masses. But romantic love is not the glue that holds good society together. Another more basic, quieter, perhaps more mundane love does that.

I've long appreciated C.S. Lewis's wisdom when it comes to love. He noted that the raging fire of initial romantic love (which husbands are constantly chided for losing) is unsustainable, and fortunately so, because it would burn us out. In its place, rather, grows a humbler tender affection and appreciation which, from time to time, fittingly blazes back into the old fire.

LCers, to use the analogy, were always trying to pump up the "romance" while disregarding the more common, everyday affections which actually constitute a loving life. They burned themselves out and never found comfort in the pace of a more mature married life with the Lord. That's why they are always hearkening back to the "good old days."

Like someone said, life is a marathon, not a sprint. LCers were always trying to turn it back into a sprint.

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Cal Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: USA Posts: 4,333	Re: Waking Up Everyone wants excitement. It's one reason romantic love is so popular with the masses. But romantic love is not the glue that holds good society together. Another more basic, quieter, perhaps more mundane love does that. I've long appreciated C.S. Lewis's wisdom when it comes to love. He noted that the raging fire of initial romantic love (which husbands are constantly chided for losing) is unsustainable, and fortunately so, because it would burn us out. In its place, rather, grows a humbler tender affection and appreciation which, from time to time, fittingly blazes back into the old fire. LCers, to use the analogy, were always trying to pump up the "romance" while disregarding the more common, everyday affections which actually constitute a loving life. They burned themselves out and never found comfort in the pace of a more mature married life with the Lord. That's why they are always hearkening back to the "good old days." Like someone said, life is a marathon, not a sprint. LCers were always trying to turn it back into a sprint.