Sometimes I cause my own grief when I discover that, unwittingly, I have made a human being into an idol, and when that person behaves like a human being and not an idol, I feel that my trust has been betrayed. No. It is I who have been the betrayer by refusing to allow for the normal fallibility of flesh and blood. The grief is genuine, but the result must be my farewell to the idol and my discovery of a human being who, on occasion, can be a Christ-bearer for me, as we are all meant to bear Christ for each other.
