November 2, 2006

• Mystery

  They say that marriage is a mystery.  Sex is a mystery.  And, isn't God, too, a mystery?  When we seek greater knowledge and greater insight into these deep matters to find answers to our questions, the result is having categorical conclusions and reasonable answers.  We come up with practical formulas, techniques, how-tos.  "If you follow these six easy steps, then you will have a great marriage, great sex and a great relationship with God."  Somehow, the pursuit of knowledge about these things deceives us to believe that they are fully knowable, completely comprehensible, and we lose sight of the fact that even the glimpse that we've come to understand is only a glimpse of understanding -- and that as time progresses, our understanding will deepen and we will recognize all too soon that when we had thought we understood, we really knew nothing at all. 

  We realize that marriage is about relationship.  Sex is about relating - one whole person with another whole person in relationship.  And God is "Person" in relationship with us.  To forget this and consider otherwise is to exchange the satisfying depth and fullness of relationship with the void of institution, biological function or religion.

  Relationship is dynamic.  It's unpredictable, intangible, ungraspable, never truly knowable -- because it involves persons.  Persons always have more depth and complexities - more and more, there's always more.  New discoveries, new thoughts, new emotions - joys and delight.  It ought to keep us suspended in wonder, awe and amazement -- of thankfulness, of gratefulness, of longing to plumb the depths of this great mystery -- even all the while knowing that we can never truly know.

  Lord God, keep me in awe of all that you are and all that you have given me.  And may that awe overwhelm and overflow in adoration and worship. 

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