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What is God's Purpose for Romance?
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What is God's Purpose for Romance?

Feb 14, 2014 | By Chris Matthews

My first experience with the mysterious power of romance came in the sixth grade. There was a girl in my grade who had gone mostly unnoticed by me in previous years. But suddenly and without warning, she began to have a dramatically different effect on me. Close physical proximity caused unexplained physical reactions: sweaty palms, a racing pulse, and an almost complete incapacity of speech. There were also emotional effects. I was excited at the prospect of her presence, anxious and terrified when she was present, and saddened when I expected her to be present and she was not. It went on for more than two years. It had shocking effects on my life. It filled my thoughts and daydreams and it impacted what I wore, who I wanted as friends, where I wanted to be, even what music I enjoyed. All the while, I had little to no relationship with the object of my romantic obsession and just a superficial knowledge of what she was really like.

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On Magic
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On Magic

Feb 14, 2014 | Unknown

Perhaps in the modern world we do not believe

in sorcerers or witchcraft. But we do know what Taylor

Swift means when she says that she was “enchanted”

to meet you. Magic and sorcery have not left this

world. We experience magic in modern love.

Perks of Being a Wallflower, a film based on the book

by Stephen Chbosky, ends with this beautiful, tumblr-

favorite voice-over by the main character, Charlie

(Logan Lerman): “This is happening, I am here and I

am looking at her. And she is so beautiful. I can see it.

This one moment when you know you’re not a sad story.

You are alive, and you stand up and see the lights

on the buildings and everything that makes you wonder.

And you’re listening to that song and that drive

with the people you love most in this world. And in

this moment I swear, we are infinite.”

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