Romancing the Divine: A Story About True Love

by Don Nori Sr.

You may think you are the only one, but nearly everyone wonders about God’s love for them. This story is a tale that could be your own. It is a passionate and personal fictional allegory about one persons search for Divine acceptance and love. Romancing the Divine is everyone’s struggle with weakness and inadequacies while longing to know they were born with a purpose. The Traveler grapples with attempting to understand Divine destiny while trying to gain the favor of the One who created him. He is looking for true love. Don Nori, pastor, publisher and author of eight books, weaves an exceptional story that will show you the power of God’s love and extent that He will go to in order for you to accept His love and His dream for you. This allegory will help you to see yourself as God sees you; to understand the limitless nature of His grace; to trust Him in your most private doubts; and to believe that what He says about you is true. The world has yet to see what can happen through a person who knows he is truly forgiven.

Genres: Christian, Christianity, Nonfiction

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

Reviews

[Gloria · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wasn't sure the direction this book would go.

It turned out to be a description of the internal world of the author in his relationship with Jesus (in a sense, a campaign with Jesus as a character).

The author had a river to cross, enemies to face, and some other "adventures".

I suppose the main take-away from the book is that Jesus requests one's heart in the beginning, but then wants your will to conform to His. There are also some things that one can hear Jesus saying internally that would be quite manipulative coming from anyone else.

[Hannah Galactic · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have bought this book 100s of times just to give it away. What a treasure this book is!

[Aelvana · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is part allegory, part story, part teaching---a man's quest for God, or perhaps more accurately God's pursuit of a man. He traverses the initial joy of discovering forgiveness, to the wilderness of doubt, to the discovery of a deeper life than he ever dreamed possible.

I don't usually review the nonfiction I read, but I wanted to make an exception for this, since it's closer to fiction. This is a very hard story to summarize, since it's far more about character and process than events. The nameless main character is clearly meant to be an "everyman" where anyone can insert himself into the story and take God's words as though spoken directly to the reader. This mostly works, although from a story point of view it can get really annoying to be told about emotions rather than feeling them (especially when the form of the allegory demands a fairly rapid emotional change for some bits), and there are two places in particular where the desire to remain generic causes the prose to trip over itself. And the main character still has moments where he mentions specifics, which makes me wish he'd gone all the way and just flat out picked something for "my greatest fear" and the times of previous pain.

But for all the rough edges on the nameless man, the character of God is clearly the highlight of the book. Scripture comes to life, often in very visual ways. The story of Israel in the wilderness is drawn out into an extended lesson, but as a conversation, not a sermon. But worth far more than any of that is the opportunity to see God actually demonstrating His various attributes---love, patience, kindness, gentleness, beauty. To see how a relationship with Him might actually look, were much of the veil stripped away. To get a taste of His thoughts, His life, His joy.

I enjoyed this quite a bit, and it left me with a lot to mull over and work out for myself. The story aspects are not as strong as the theological aspects, but it's very easy to read while at the same time exploring some deep truth. I rate this book Recommended.

[Carmella · Rating 5 out of 5]

I saw myself

I saw myself

I could see myself in this relationship. I do the same things, have the same fears. I am amazed that the King of Glory wants me to know He loves me, even though He knows everything about me. He beckons me to follow Him. I would recommend this book to anyone who is seeking to understand a little better what the Divine Love of Christ is like.

[Kimberly · Rating 2 out of 5]

Found this book a very hard read to stick with because of the way it was written. I read more than half of the book before I finally became invested in what I was reading. The last few chapters finally became more of what I was expecting when I first started the book.

[Robin Lux · Rating 5 out of 5]

Empowering!

What a great book. I rarely highlight or share passages from books but I did with this one several times. If you're questioning God's love, even if you're not, this is the book for you.

[Larry · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best books you'll ever read on God's unconditional love...get ready to be broken and shed some tears!

[Kristine Vigil]

Loved it!!

This book reminded me of Jesus Calling but seemed so much more. Maybe I just really needed this, but then I think all of us do.

[Linda Van Wert · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very good book. I am planning to read more books by this author

[Ngaleu]

i have not read yet