Relationships Are Great

I had a nearly life long relationship with a great woman. At times it was a love hate relationship but always the love far exceeded the hate. Relationships are hard. When we let people get close we know they see both our good and bad, and we see their good and bad at the same time.  If the relationship really matters we work hard enough to overcome the challenges and work through the difficulties. We take time to think about, and communicate with people who are truly significant to us. Most of us become experts at human nature because we study people in order to find out way through the maze of life working hopefully toward happiness. When I married Marsha we did not live on the same planet. I came from a stoic family that rarely expressed emotion and she came from a family where emotions flew around everywhere all the time. I had trouble dealing with her emotional nature and she didn't know what to do with my lack of emotion.  We worked at those and other differences and grew to love each other deeply and value our relationship intensely.
At times I have struggled with my relationship with God in much the same way. I have worked hard to develop that relationship too. I have read His word and prayed for understanding. I have spoken volumes to him and I have sat in silence and learned to listen. I make every attempt I can think of to look at everything in life through my understanding of the nature of God, while I work to try and make the nature of God, the experience of God in the world and my own reason come together in some meaningful way. I can't expect my relationship with God to be any more meaningful than any other if I fail to make it a priority. Relationships are great especially a relationship with God through Jesus Christ, but relationships are work especially the most important ones.