I have actually gotten a few comments on this subject.

Isn’t the word romantic mean lust?
That doesn’t sound very christian

…What does romantic love feel like?…

…Why add romantic to the word love? Love is completely…

I’m kind of glad you asked. I think the answer has something to do with the fact that love is complete. In the English language, it can mean so many things. So how would I define romantic love? I don’t know. Intimate love? The love only a husband and wife should know?

I don’t think that completely defines it. That sounds good and all in this world. When I think of romantic love, it is turned around (which word describes which). I think love describes and redeems the word romantic.

What does romantic mean? It could refer to lust the way we use it, but to me it is means so many things. Like “Bohemian” from Moulin Rouge! where that word meant to freely and wholly embrace truth, beauty, and above all, love. Romantic is kind of the same way. My high school AP Euro teacher described the Romantic Period of art and culture in Europe as a group of idealists, measuring the life of a person by the number of times their breath is taken away. Some could say romantic can be related to pursuit.

So love is the modifier. Godly love. Take all of the above about romantic and redeem it. Where “You complete me” becomes “He completes us.” How God pursued Israel. How Jesus pursues His church. Where two people take that last step and, whenever they remember, they see Jesus when they see the other person. Where two people are so close because they have been chasing after God.

To answer the middle question. I don’t really know. I don’t know if I have completely experienced it. But if I have, it feels like revival in your heart every time you see the other person. Maybe I used it a couple of times as the world uses it in “my testimony,” But I know for certain that’s how I would describe how I felt for Anna.

And Grace, I am quoting your note on the woman at the well in this because it is so beautiful:

“I’m a visual person. i imagine things better when i can picture them in my head. and these two simple lines, “will you marry me?” and “..yes.” helped me picture the concept of revival so much more clearly. Jesus keeps asking us this question over and over again, and we keep on running away or avoiding the question, or rejecting him. if someone you loved asked you this question, you probably wouldn’t do any of the above. siiiigh. i’m so sorry, Jesus. help me to fall in love with you all over again.“

So thanks, guys. It was blessing even thinking about it