Spacial Relationships

One thing that often strikes me in our human relationships is just how little we tend to analyze the cause and effect relationship of our actions. It’s pretty easy mathematically to determine correlation, and thus to at least infer causation, but things get a lot trickier when the human element is introduced. For example I have recently discovered that one of my personal acquaintances is embroiled in a fairly ugly feud stemming from a series of unfortunate choices. She seems completely caught up in the immediate problems that the feud are causing, but she seems unwilling to address, or at least unaware of the original problem. That is, that she did some stupid stuff. The real question though is why she did these things. I can only guess at her actual intentions, but it would seem to me that in the process of growing up, she lost sight of whom and what she is and chose to pursue a straw man. This is certainly not a unique problem; as we humans are distracted every day by the bright shiny objects that we depend upon for our happiness and self-worth but which really only distract us. Our problems are of our own making, it is only once we realize this that we will be able to address them. Paul had it right when he wrote “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.” We will go nowhere focusing on symptomatic issues, true maturity can only be reached once we have let go of our own pursuits.