Art of God

I have been pondering whether to write this post or not for some time now. Actually I wrote it a while back and sent it to my friend, I wasn't sure if I want to make it public. I wasn't sure what holds me back, either, I still am not sure - maybe it's just to personal, maybe there is something "off" about it that I can't see but can sense, maybe it's incomplete - I really don't know. But I do feel that I can't just jump over it, ignore it, move on to writing of other things.

Don't ask me why, I have no idea, it's just how it feels and I don't understand and, according to Brooks, I don't have to understand. So here it is:

Let me tell you about another man I had the experience of an amazing connection with, quite the same I described in my previous post. This man was not only a total stranger, but a stranger I decidedly didn't like.

It was back in Poland, I think back when I was in college just getting ready to get my masters in psychology. I worked for a while for a recruiting company, traveling to different cities and running meetings with potential employees, choosing those that would be the best-selling agents. There usually was two of us doing the meeting - me and one other person. One time it turned out to be me and this guy, Grzegorz. He just recently moved back to Poland after staying in America for about 10 years. He talked a lot, with terrible american-accented polish. I thought he was such a show off and pretty much hated him.

Brooks said once: we exist only in relationship. This is something I've been thinking about for a long time, trying to "figure it out", figure out relationships. What are they about, what are they for?

As I was writing the last two posts, as I was experiencing what was coming up as my old friendship came back to light, I started realizing that there is a sort of "common denominator" in being in relationship that's true for all kinds of relationships: to other humans, to things, to events, to reality.

This common denominator is being God in relationship. God will be relating differently to a spouse, to a friend, to a dog, to a thing — but no matter who or what it is that God hangs out with - God is still God. And in that lies the quality of relationship: God is God. No matter what company God is in at the moment - God is God. Fully and completely unique and independent. This, I believe, is how God is in relationship - unique and independent. Always. And by that I mean - it is God deciding on how his experience looks like, how his life looks like. It is God that creates it.

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, December 10, 2007

Behind the Rush To Add Women To Norway's Boards

Aker ASA, founded in 1841, is Norway's largest private employer, with around 35,000 employees and annual revenue of roughly $10.90 billion. But until 2004, the company had no female directors.

Today, the industrial holding company has three, and women occupy 13 more seats on the boards of six companies in which Aker holds significant stakes.

What happened? A 2003 law requires every publicly traded company in Norway to have a certain number of women on its board by Jan. 1 or risk being shut down. Exactly how many depends on the board's size, but nationally, the law -- the first of its kind in the world -- aims for women to hold 40% of such directorships.