more on relationships

Argh! I wrote this whole thing and now it's gone. :( Going off of memory now...I appreciate your thoughts and how well you expressed yourself. It is disappointing to hear of some of the encounters with well-known Christians to be less than uplifting. :( Yet it is another reminder that we all have feet of clay. It would probably be the same if someone decided to stick me in the limelight. Ugh! All the good...the bad...and the ugly would be exposed for all the world to see.

The characteristics you listed as being achievable for being a 'good man/woman'-- that seems to be found in only the deepest and closest of relationships. That isn't something I come across every day. The friends who demonstrate those characteristics are ones in which we've "grown" over the passage of time. Is openness and transparency achieved in the day-to-day interactions with those we encounter? What fosters that? What prevents people from achieving the vulnerability and honesty? (both with themselves and with others). It seems like most of us are afraid of being known deeply so we present a mask to the world. Or maybe we've worn our "game face" so well that we think that is who we truly are.

posted by Christine @ 10:45 PM