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When a man pursues his bride as the Lord Jesus pursues His Bride (that's us, by the way) the eternal empowers the tangible, and the tangible embodies the eternal (Ephesians 5:32).

The eternal empowers the tangible when he & she follow the blueprints for a relationship that prevails against the enemies of Romance — the very same five foundations that Christ and His Bride build on:

his love
the source of Romance
His Love pursues Her Trust by making the first move, to express to her just how exclusively valuable she is to him.

her trust
the potential for Romance
Her Trust permits the ongoing exchanges of transparent Intimate Talk between the two of them.

intimate talk
the life of Romance
Intimate Talk avails the mutual sharing of secret concerns, hopes, and dreams to intertwine them with an internal Cohesion.

cohesion
the strength of Romance
Cohesion prepares an unmarried couple to pursue Marriage, and empowers a married couple to keep it.

marriage
the fulfillment of Romance
Marriage consummates their oneness from the inside out, to saturate their souls with a permanent joy.

One day, the Lord told me to move from Seattle to San Antonio, to look for my bride at a church I'd never been to. So on September 10^th 2000, I packed all my things to pursue a perfect stranger.

After meeting her and talking with her for several hours, she showed me a one-time prayer-letter she had written before we met, asking God to send her the right man.

The date on her letter was “9-10-00,” the exact same day I packed all my things, from over 2,000 miles away, for the pursuit of a lifetime.

On December 22^nd 2001, I married the most beautiful girl my eyes will ever see.

The tangible embodies the eternal when he & she build on what will never die, setting the stage for a prevailing Romance, a happier family, and a tangible picture of what Christ wants to have with all of us forever.

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