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Saturday 28th February 2009 12:07:09 AM

Intimacy
This world is no friend to grace. Seeking for intimacy at any level-with God or with persons-is not a venture that gets the support of many people. Intimacy is not good for business. It is inefficient, it lacks "glamour." If love of God can be reduced to a ritualized hour of worship, if love of another can be reduced to an act of sexual intercourse, then routines are simply and the world can be run efficiently. But if we will not settle for the reduction of love to lust and of faith to ritual, and run through the streets asking for more, we will most certainly disturb the peace and be told to behave ourselves and go back to the homes and churches where we belong.

(Eugene H. Peterson, Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work, p.53-54)


密的關係,對現代人來說,有甚麼意義。在這個講求高度效率的社會,任何可以用15分鐘做完的事,卻用上半小時,肯定會被視為沒有效率。但我們與別人交往,甚至與神交往,也是否要講求效率呢?

在電影當中,描述情侶最親密的關係,必定會用一段情慾戲作交代,但情侶最親密的時間,又是否真的在床上呢?會否有其它的事情,更能描述二人親密的關係呢?

們都追求親密的關係,小時候我們有父母給找們親密關係的感覺,在求學時,學校的群體生活,讓我們體會友情的珍貴,是另一種親密關係的建立。但到了出來社會工作,親密的關係逐漸失去,我們變得越來越獨立,像一切也在掌握之中,追求親密的關係,並不會得到肯定和讚賞。

重新建立親密的關係,不怕浪費時間,因為時間不一定要用金錢來衡量,親密的關係絶對要花上時間和心思,耐心培養出來,不是來去匆匆,簡簡單單,或因循地去做一些事情,便可以與別人建立親密的關係。
Intimacy 是需要為所愛的人付上代價,如果你仍愛他//祂,請再次認真想一想,你可以為這段關係,付上代價嗎?

Daniel Law 27/2/09

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