Reconcile!?

We're really bad at relationships. I mean, do you ever think about how much shear force it takes just to keep a family together? You have to work at it (I mean, at least I do) like all day everyday. It's like treading water. You can't just lay there and let it happen. You have to do some serious maintenance like, constantly.

And then we go and try to live in community and look what happens - it just compounds the problem. You take people with their individual issues and struggles and hang-ups and pet peeves and you combine them with other people who have some other baggage and then you put a bunch of those groups of people together. I mean, that's just stupid if you think about it, but that's what we're called to.

I'm thankful for it at times. There's nothing more interesting than a relationship and there's nothing else worth fighting for. The problem is, we get to the point where we just give up on relationships because there are too many problems. We go looking for new ones or look to things to fulfill our need for connection. It's a good thing God's all about reconciliation. He's better at it.