After Our Hearts

"The gospel says that we, who are God’s beloved, created a cosmic crisis. It says we, too, were stolen from our True Love [like Helen of Troy] and that he launched the greatest campaign in the history of the world to get us back. God created us for intimacy with him. When we turned our back on him he promised to come for us. He sent personal messengers; he used beauty and affliction to recapture our hearts. After all else failed, he conceived the most daring of plans. Under the cover of night he stole into the enemy’s camp incognito, the Ancient of Days disguised as a newborn. The Incarnation, as Phil Yancey reminds us, was a daring raid into enemy territory. The whole world lay under the power of the evil one and we were held in the dungeons of darkness. God risked it all to rescue us. Why? What is it that he sees in us ... What he is after is us – our laughter, our tears, our dreams, our fears, our heart of hearts."

Curtis & Eldridge, The Sacred Romance, pp. 91.