It strikes us that to hope in the kind of goodness that would set our heart free, we must be willing to allow our desire to remain haunted.\u00c2\u00a0 This side of the Fall, true goodness comes by surprise, the old writings tell us, enthralling us for a moment in heaven’s time.\u00c2\u00a0 They warn us it cannot be held.\u00c2\u00a0 Something inside knows they are right, that if we could do so, we would set up temples to worship it and the Sacred Romance would become prostitution.\u00c2\u00a0 We understand that we must allow our desire to haunt us like Indian summer, where the last lavish banquet of golds and yellows and reds stirs our deepest joy and sadness, even as they promise us they will return in the fragrance of spring.<\/p>\n
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