Relationships are right at the center of God’s creation. Relationships are so crucial to how we become people and who the people are that we become. Those relationships that nurture us and damage us, hinder us, encourage us, help us—all of that in this mix, this relational existence, relational process that we are in, for our whole lives. Very often, just like as we say, “What is marriage?”and we say, “It’s a relationship,” we don’t recognize the significance of that. We often don’t recognize the