The Complete Rob Bell: His Seven Bestselling Books, All in One Place. Rob Bell

      For thousands of years, the poets have known that love is risky. There’s a scene in the Song of Songs, a collection of poems in the Bible, where the woman sees her lover, whom she calls her “beloved,” and he’s coming toward her. She says, “Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills.”1

      But when he makes it to her house, he can’t get in.

      She says, “There he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.”