“There
is an intimacy with God, but it's like any other intimacy; it's part
of the fabric of your life. In marriage you don't feel intimate most
of the time. Nor with a friend. Intimacy isn't primarily a mystical
emotion. It's a way of life, a life of openness with the One we love.”
Eugene
Peterson
"Perhaps, for lack of anything better, people flee to what they call a personal relationship with Jesus, but I have never seen any evidence that that relationship is anything but a fantasy, an ignis fatuus of the mind, a factitious something created to keep people in thrall to an idea that sucks the very marrow out of life.
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