“Life is relationship, learning to relate to the whole earth and all that is therein. But in the end every cherished person must be surrendered, every familiar place given up, every precious object handed over. All of our dyings are preparation for a final dying; all of our births, preparation for the resurrection. God who makes our very life dependent upon relationship, wants for [God’s] self an ever deepening relationship with us, and that is possible only as we become like [God].”
-Elizabeth O’Connor, The New Community, p. 83
