Unfulfilled Love Songs

How many over-the-top love songs have you heard and thought, "Wow, there is no way that actually happens in real life!"  Not just songs, but expand that to books, movies, etc.  Sure, some of us hope more than others that a "perfect" romantic relationship is out there somewhere; but if we are being honest, we would admit that we have come to expect little from love...yet we still yearn and long for a deepness of feeling and expression that continues to evade us.  Just look at the litany of media available along these lines - these stories are produced by human hearts and minds for a very consuming public; in a lot of them, you can hear the heart cry of the human race, ultimately looking for perfect love.  All of this makes me think of the following C.S. Lewis quote:  

"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world." 

The eternal, all-powerful, all-knowing God of the universe created us to be the very objects of His affection and love.  Just try for a few seconds to wrap your mind around that...  Wouldn't it make sense that no relationship here on this earth could begin to satisfy the deep capacity of the reservoir for love He designed in each of us?

Ecclesiastes 3:11 - He has made everything beautiful in its time.  He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

As I have grown in my relationship with God over the last few years, I have begun to listen to these same songs, read these same books, and watch these same movies with a new set of eyes and ears.  Instead of immediately calling them out as sappy and unrealistic (yes, I admit that I am a recovering cynic), I choose to allow my heart and mind to entertain the idea that all of them just might be possible - except not with another human being but with the ONE who has always known and loved me from the beginning of time.

I dare you to try this same exercise; you'll never be the same.  Here's a music video of one of the songs in particular that God has been revealing Himself to me through - thank you George!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_nB_CbGV5g