Mirror Image : the challenge of love

Do you feel unfulfilled in your friendships? Do you ever feel like they should be more supportive, more generous, more joyous, and generally more substantial?

Do you find yourself standing alone at too many church potlucks, or engaging in shallow and meaningless conversation with people you've known your whole life, but you've realized you don't really know them?God intended us for deeper relationships than we realize.

His Book, the Bible, was a love story from Him to the world-and a manual on how to give that love back to Him and to the people around us.

For creative and meaningful relationships, we must understand God's love and how we can use our personal relationship with Him to relate to others.

But this requires a change in thinking, a change in interacting, and possibly a change in church culture itself. Erin Pressel is a writer, artist, polymath, enthusiastic book buyer, player of music, dabbler in Scottish Gaelic, and too curious for her own good.

Referred to by no one as the Caretaker for lack of qualification, she has always wanted a nickname, but has never had one because her name is too short.

Her hobbies are being facetious, daydreaming and thinking too much.

She lives in Dallas, Oregon, and Mirror Image is her first published work.