"The foundation of any living relationship is a willingness to be surprised." Beautifully and truthfully said, Pete. This is a great tribute to a great man; many thanks!
So much here is both balm and challenge - I especially like Kennan’s and your thoughts on mercy. Thank you Pete for guiding me to deeply think on a micro and macro level about our possibilities.
GOD THIS IS SO GOOD. “Francis understood this so well. The absolute is not “something detached, something lacking any relationship,” he wrote to an inquiring non-believer in 2013. “The truth is a relationship!”
And the foundation of any living relationship is a willingness to be surprised. If you already think you know the score about someone, you can’t have a living relationship with them. You see them as an algorithm — you leave no space for a connection to grow. The same goes for our relationship with history, or even existence: If we already think we know the score about how the world works, or how the future will unfold, we can’t have a relationship with life itself.“
"The foundation of any living relationship is a willingness to be surprised." Beautifully and truthfully said, Pete. This is a great tribute to a great man; many thanks!
So much here is both balm and challenge - I especially like Kennan’s and your thoughts on mercy. Thank you Pete for guiding me to deeply think on a micro and macro level about our possibilities.
GOD THIS IS SO GOOD. “Francis understood this so well. The absolute is not “something detached, something lacking any relationship,” he wrote to an inquiring non-believer in 2013. “The truth is a relationship!”
And the foundation of any living relationship is a willingness to be surprised. If you already think you know the score about someone, you can’t have a living relationship with them. You see them as an algorithm — you leave no space for a connection to grow. The same goes for our relationship with history, or even existence: If we already think we know the score about how the world works, or how the future will unfold, we can’t have a relationship with life itself.“
needed this today, thanks
Wonderful tribute.