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Tuesday, June 29, 2004 To Know and Be Known It's funny sometimes how we find ourselves facing difficult issues exactly at the same time a close friend finds herself struggling with the same thing. I suppose that's God's way of reminding us that we're not entirely alone, even when we feel that way. Why is it so hard to be vulnerable? To feel confident that someone else cares? We hide from each other, and when we do reveal those deep parts we're often hurt. Perhaps not immediately, but eventually we all fail each other. Close friends become strangers. Even when they promise otherwise. Rejection comes easily. In such a broken world, how are we to trust anyone? How are we to believe that there will be friends who stick around for life rather than an intense interim? And if they don't stick around, was the investment of time, energy, and emotion wasted? Yet as Shinji discovers in Evangelion, we have to take people as they are, even if they will hurt and be hurt by us. It's a statement to the degree of our fallenness that we have issues trusting each other, that we can't know each other or be known fully. But that doesn't mean that we can shut ourselves off, that we can shield ourselves--it just deadens us. By protecting ourselves, we eventually destroy the things that make life worth living. As CS Lewis wrote, "Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you will find that you have excluded life itself." Of course, knowing and applying this are two different things. ^ Top | 4:19 PM | | | 
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