"To know and enjoy someone means to get close enough to understand them. Knowledge of someone else, true knowledge, is grounded in the idea of seeking understanding. When they are a problem to solve, we don't have to understand -- we just have to fix them or move them to where they need to be. It is mechanistic by definition and not human. To know them is to understand them.
To enjoy them is to go one step beyond understanding. It is to see enough about them and their own unique image-bearing quality to experience just a touch of delight. As if your knowledge of them leads to an organic appreciation of them. This is the enjoyment of another."
~Will Acuff, "No Elevator to Everest"
I am slowly learning the truths in the above quote. How to see each other's unique image-bearing qualities without trying to fix one another. How to appreciate and enjoy my spouse. Katherine's rehearsals have provided a weekly opportunity for us to walk a trail and to stay connected through "coffee and calendar". This weekend, we were in Hot Springs Village for a youth orchestra concert, so Aaron and I returned to Melinda's Coffee Corner then meandered around the DeSoto Nature Trail. This was the last rehearsal and concert until school begins, so we'll no longer have our automatic date time together. We'll have to be more intentional about continuing to communicate well and to carve out time to play.
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