I am working to see myself as both ephemeral and insignificant as well as eternal and endless, an important particle of the body of God.

Shifting our hope of the good we expect from our relationships, however trivial or mundane, from mediocre good to supernal good will change the center of our ethics from merely preserving our own autonomy to actually creating the deep-seated good we seek.

Many people rallied around this idea, asserting that it was unrealistic to expect Christians to be held to a higher standard than non-Christians and that Christians are merely human, therefore expected to behave in naturally human ways. My own gut feeling was that Christians should be held to a certain level of acceptable conduct