As I see it, the challenge is to be of service and be responsive to the other without taking responsibility for the other, to care without carrying, to be involved with the other without losing self. We are relational. I am also individual. The challenge is to be relational in a way that I hold onto my individuality, and to be an individual in a way that allows relationship and involvement. It is a dialectic that is part of life and we always struggle with and never do perfectly.
On May 21, 2014 david doane wrote :
As I see it, the challenge is to be of service and be responsive to the other without taking responsibility for the other, to care without carrying, to be involved with the other without losing self. We are relational. I am also individual. The challenge is to be relational in a way that I hold onto my individuality, and to be an individual in a way that allows relationship and involvement. It is a dialectic that is part of life and we always struggle with and never do perfectly.