No one longs for love or feels more loveless than an addict. Wanting to stay in control can keep us human beings from knowing---experiencing---God as desperate lover. As Robert Bly explained in his book Iron John: A Book About Men, "Some women want a passive man if they want a man at all; the church wants a tamed man--they are called priests; the university wants a domesticated man--they are called tenure track people; the corporation wants a...sanitized, hairless, shallow man."
But we addicts know that we need a wild man. A man who will love us when we wander, when we drink too much, eat too much, spend too much...or try to drink our own urine. The God-man who has gone to the absolute extreme for us.
Sharon A. Hersh
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