A Long Beard And An Afro
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007From relevantmagazine.com
The 2nd Century theologian and fellow Jesus-follower Irenaeus said that “the glory of God is a human being fully alive.” If this is true, I figure we’ve got to live our lives in connection with other people, since people seem to be a pretty big part of our lives. I suppose you could live in the mountains or out in the desert, but then you risk becoming the Unabomber or some kind of water-deprived flaky-skinned weirdo.
The problem is that nothing about a relationship with another person is ever simple, unless you are pretending, but this isn’t a secret to most people, I think. I think we all know, deep down, that relationships are a big screwed up mess, that the collision of individuals with separate pasts and families and loves is going to create supernovas of chaos.
