Every relationship is alive, organic, and continually evolving in the direction of either depth or loss of depth. Relationships require much attention, serious effort and sometimes even courage and longsuffering in order to be maintained.
Relationships are like a garden with weeds always encroaching.
God is pro-relationship. His own identity is marked at every point by relationship and we, being made in his image, are very much identified by our relationships. We actively participate in the direction of God's spirit when we form and maintain loving relationships. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. Vanier 1997 Omega Project Publishing.