Eros

To “love” someone is to long for them. To consummate that love is to cease longing, to cease loving.

That is the dilemma of “marriage” or Eros.

“Falling in love” is falling into longing.

Except where there is an infinite being to be longed for we will cease the chase of anything finite.

The human mind, in its capacity to symbol, can live a life of love towards any finite being or object because that finite thing can symbol that which is infinite.

Marriage would be one horrible mess without God. Without that which is infinite beyond the finite.

Human relationship are founded on nothing but God. Nothing but love and longing, beyond the actual selves into what those selves mean. Their being, however, symbols and is the real.

Christ is the full incarnation of God. The church bears that incarnation through history. All humans are God’s image, and in the eyes of the Christian are Christ.

If we can hold the infinite in the finite moment we will love. We will allow for “humanity” For creativity and for growth.

Institutionalization, articulation, classification and reflection all happen after the event, and are necessary. But they are secondary.

Primary is being itself. Love. Wonder. Creation and creativity. Unclassified yet, but felt. Lived.

Enter other people open. Always asking, and where there are answers, return to the primary question.
Be certain of the question before being certain of the answer.

My first post in a while.

Nothing more to say than to confirm that I still exist.

And I have been thinking about how when you look for books in the library it is like looking at shut doors.

I-Thou. Are you going to open it and leave all the other doors behind and look at this one in particular? Or are you going to open the door and glance around just to say you have?

Are people like this too? Not that looking in quickly is an evil, but rather, it can not be the only way to know.

Love must be like this ..ish