distance

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but it is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

The distance between I and Thou is a distance that separates us, but also a distance that binds us together. Love necessitates a distance as well as a binding together. The affliction that separates 'I' and God is distance comprehended which draws me closer to Him. Without distance we are without free will and even more so without the capacity to love God or my neighbor.

I might also question love's purpose when we are in perfect unity with God. Our capacity to love would simply turn into a state of being and definitions based on separation of the like would also crumble. Language plays an important role in between space. what happens when language exists outside of space? jeepers.