Danger, Will Robinson

If you have no idea why I gave this post that title, I am sure you are not alone. It's kind of dumb, actually. It's from a TV show. Can anyone name it?

I have a date tonight, that I have been looking forward to for 2 weeks. When you are old and dating, it's a lot like being married most of the time; romantic evenings are spent washing dishes together, instead of drinking and dancing under the stars. We sit on the couch and sip wine while the children gallivant before us, and then the youngest will plop down in between us to snuggle. It's like romance, only less relaxing.
He invited me to go to dinner and a movie. He asked me two weeks ago, and told me the restaurant, and the movie we're going to see. I find that looking forward to it is a big part of the fun.
I have no idea what to wear.

Romance is a fascinating topic. Not just my love life, necessarily, but in general. I was reading in the Song of Solomon yesterday, and there were a few things that struck me anew.
One, is that romance must be very important to God. I know that some prudish commentators claim that the Song of Solomon is an analogy for God's love for us, and maybe there's a hint of that. But the book is about Desire and Passion and Romance. These fascinating elements were God's idea, and He showers approval on them by the things He says.
Also, the world, and the evil one, seem to have put a lot of effort into corrupting God's idea of Romance. This tells me that the whole thing is quite powerful and important.
Powerful and Important.
I think that's very profound.

My love is something to fight for, and to guard from attack. Mostly, I find that I have to protect it from myself, to be honest. I need no help from the devil, to have a corrupting influence on my relationship. I could damage it with one errant afternoon. Or a bit of gossip. There's probably lots I could do, because I can be very bad, when left to my own devices.
God calls us to something better.
His idea of romance comes with a warning label. It's more powerful than the atom bomb. Isn't that strange? How can something with so much intensity ever accomplish something good? When I look around my culture, I see a battlefield of broken hearts and shredded souls, from love gone bad, or twisted into a mockery. Many... most... of the people I know, have been desperately wounded from handling this powerful magic with no regard to the caveats.
Passion, romance, and desire were God's idea, though. He details how to work with this powerful force, in a way that creates, rather than destroys. If there is so much power to crush, imagine how this can be, when handled well!

I'm learning a lot. I'm learning about Tim, of course, but I'm also learning about myself, and about God. There is "Deep Magic" here, like in Narnia. Something that is mystical and divine.
....And Very, Very Powerful.