I've been doing some more thinking on this, and when I did a field test I realized my initial theory needed editing.
I don't think we know what our raspberry sherbet is until someone tells us.
There is a theory in philosophy and psychology, that we don't know our thoughts until we find the nomenclature and syntax to describe them (or we know them but can't deal with them until they are formed into sentences). This rings true to me. Especially in terms of abstract things like feelings. We have not the distance from ourselves to be objective judges.
Ideally we want a spouse to love us better than we love ourselves; have a more thorough knowledge of our person-hood and stronger belief in our capacity to be sanctified. This is what Jesus does for us with perfection, but ideally a spouse is acting like Jesus, right?
I had no idea that raspberry sherbet was going to complete me until I discovered it serendipitously in my mother's freezer. I never knew that it was what I was looking for, or I would have been frequenting the frozen food sections of grocery stores much earlier.
Brand of Awesome is clearly more complicated to define than I thought, and also more difficult to recognize in life.
Sublime-woo
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