There are people I meet that are so interesting, attractive, engaging, entertaining, appealing and simply fun that I desire to build relationship. Or, at the least, some sort of affiliation while fostering hopes of increased connection. I enjoy these people and my curiosity propels me further into friendship, into relationship, into time spent together. Potential intimacy looms.

Conversely, the prophetic word towards Christ records that God Himself left much (everything) to be desired by me. No sign of potential intimacy anywhere; a seemingly infinite leap.

And yet, i find this intimacy inescapable.

He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. What a paradox.