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When I read them, I couldn’t help but smile as I thought of G.K. Chesterton’s introduction to Orthodoxy.  He said, “ I have often had a fancy for writing a romance about an English yachtsman who slightly miscalculated his course and discovered England under the impression that it was a new island in the South Seas.” When he arrives he finds, “What could be more delightful than to have in the same few minutes all the fascinating terrors of going abroad combined with all the humane security of coming home again?”

I think we need, as Chesterton says, “romance” which he defines as  “the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.”   We strive for the new, the curious, the innovative, but we need the stability and security of what is proven to be the good, the beautiful, the true.