The need for romance and desire via the heart is portrayed as the key element of Christian life, rather than the fulfillment of the mere human body or the head, the physical or intellectual essence. The authors address an audience whom they assume may be undergoing a spiritual conflict. Without God, life is stagnant and unhappy, although this lack of purpose may seem like a lack of finding the 'right person,' the 'right vocation,' or making enough money. But all loves for things other than God are mere substitutions for the real thing. The authors make use of personal narratives to use their own lives as examples that God, despite occasional evidence that might falsely sway the reader to believe the contrary, is good, and desires His perfect creation of humanity to strive to be good, and hopes that humanity will seek best way to lead a truly purposeful and happy existence. (This is, as opposed to a merely, momentarily pleasurable life). The best way to true happiness for a Christian is to abandon one's self to God's will and divine...

Even self-help books hold out as promises that if one pleasures the body with finding out the 'right' way to find a mate, or to balance one's budget or keep one's waistline in check, one will be happy. But the true romance is not with another person, much less with the self, for only when the reader has a good relationship with God, can that Christian reader make peace with the world, humanity, and his or her soul and self. By recklessly abandoning the Christian self to a romance with God, only then can the reader lead a life of emotional, spiritual, and romantic abundance, a passionate romance that will spill over into all other life spheres.
Works Cited

Curtis, Brent and John Eldredge. The Sacred Romance: Drawing Closer to the Heart of God, 1997.