In our longing, we reach out, to know and to be known, to touch and to be touched, to be held by an energy other than our own. We move out of ourselves and into the mystery of the other.

Relationships are larger than the persons within them. They are a schoolhouse of the divine where we learn about giving, about not having it all, about union and loss, about forgiveness.

To contain the longing, the encounter, the surrender is an attempt to contain divine energy within our human person. It defines the human experience.