Class, lunch, volunteer project, study, frat meeting, work out, bed. I find that I just go for days without talking to other people. But then I remembered, these are our kids. This is the way we raised them, to be like us as we are now. At root, the issue is nearly the same one I spoke about last week, the issue of intimacy.
Intimacy is the spiritual key to spiritually ground, meaningful sexual relationships.
In a different way, but not so different really, it is the key to profound spiritual friendships. Our scripture this day says, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David and he loved him as his own soul. That is a great thing, a special thing, when you have a friend that really knows you to the depths of your soul, someone that you know you can count on, someone you can share with on a profound level, someone you can trust with your secrets. Great friendship does not necessarily have to be with people of the same age that have shared the same experiences. In our scripture passage read earlier, St. Paul describes his affection for a young Timothy, who has all the gifts for leadership in the Church.