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Wow...what this music does to me. Iron & Wine is just an amazing band...er...guy who names himself something different when he does music.
Anyway, i had a strange thought the other day, and it wont make sense even when i try to explain it. But...i was thinking about girls and when a girl is right for you and just how i dont know if i could ever feel like someone is THE one, the girl i could marry and be with for the rest of my life. But then i think about the type of relationship that is, and other types of relationships in my life where the people i consider dont strike me as THE ideal of that sort. But its what they are...Ron is my father, and all that I think of when i have that Platonic Form of father in mind doesnt really apply well, but he is who he is and its exactly as it should be. My blood brother, Jason, i mean to think that we're the two people who grew up together since i was barely a year old, he doesnt fit some far-off Form of that either, hes much too concrete and particular, and I love it like that. It's not pristine or false enough to be perfect. My mother, my roommate, my friends, wow...even when i take it to my Lord, it gets crazy. Whenever I'm reminded of Jesus' intense humanity, it weirds me out, because He doesn't fit my Platonic Messiah Form. He's too human. Thats so much more exciting though...he was a man, with a specific skin-tone, eye and hair color, a particular set of mannerisms, speaking in a certain language (that i do not understand by the way), and he probably wasnt the most hygenically clean person either by my American standards, but He was God still. He doesnt fit my form. Nothing in reality could, because it's this hazy understanding of what a Lord or a Savior or a God-Man ought to be, and there is nothing Supremely Real about it. Bottom line, ive got to take my head out of the clouds...its not even where the life is. Much more exciting and wonderfully dreamy down here.
Anyway, i had a strange thought the other day, and it wont make sense even when i try to explain it. But...i was thinking about girls and when a girl is right for you and just how i dont know if i could ever feel like someone is THE one, the girl i could marry and be with for the rest of my life. But then i think about the type of relationship that is, and other types of relationships in my life where the people i consider dont strike me as THE ideal of that sort. But its what they are...Ron is my father, and all that I think of when i have that Platonic Form of father in mind doesnt really apply well, but he is who he is and its exactly as it should be. My blood brother, Jason, i mean to think that we're the two people who grew up together since i was barely a year old, he doesnt fit some far-off Form of that either, hes much too concrete and particular, and I love it like that. It's not pristine or false enough to be perfect. My mother, my roommate, my friends, wow...even when i take it to my Lord, it gets crazy. Whenever I'm reminded of Jesus' intense humanity, it weirds me out, because He doesn't fit my Platonic Messiah Form. He's too human. Thats so much more exciting though...he was a man, with a specific skin-tone, eye and hair color, a particular set of mannerisms, speaking in a certain language (that i do not understand by the way), and he probably wasnt the most hygenically clean person either by my American standards, but He was God still. He doesnt fit my form. Nothing in reality could, because it's this hazy understanding of what a Lord or a Savior or a God-Man ought to be, and there is nothing Supremely Real about it. Bottom line, ive got to take my head out of the clouds...its not even where the life is. Much more exciting and wonderfully dreamy down here.