Intimacy is a capacity for closeness and tenderness. It is often disclosed in moments of risky self-disclosure. Intimacy makes all love possible, and yet it also reveals our utter incapacity to love back as the other deserves. None of us can go there without completely manifesting our deeper self to another, and allowing the flow to happen.
True human intimacy or divine intimacy is somewhat rare and very hard, particularly for all who deem it important to avoid all signs of weakness or neediness. God began thawing this glacial barrier by coming precisely in male form as Jesus, who exposes maleness itself as also naked, needy, and vulnerable. The transmission of the inner mystery of God repeatedly in “the little ones” and “the poor in spirit,” which he himself became.
Many of us are afraid of baring our deepest identity to another human or even to God. Yet people who risk intimacy are invariably happier. People who avoid such intimacy are imprisoned in a small and circumscribed world. Soulful intimacy is a gateway into the sacred realm of human and divine love.
We all desire true and intimate love because God created us with a bottomless and endless need to be loved and to love.
1 John 2:5-6 “But those who obey God’s word truly show how completely they love him. That is how we know we are living in him. Those who say they live in God should live their lives as Jesus did.”
