Dave Evans

Which usually brings up the question, what the hell is that?

That's okay.

Stop me any time.

No, no, no.

It's your show.

The scandal of particularity is originally a theological, then a philosophical concept.

And what it is, that turns out the ultimate of anything, truth, beauty, justice, purity,

is never actually experienced in reality.

Only partial reflections temporarily encountered in a very specific and constrained moment in time, a particularity, are what we actually get.

We're longing for perfection, but all we get is the particular.

That's actually just the nature of reality.

So rather than like, oh, you see the amazing sunset.

And if you really, really attend to that amazing sunset, just as it's over and the sun hits the horizon and you see the green flash and, whoa, what do you want?

It wasn't quite enough.

That isn't, it fell short.

That is the fundamental nature of reality.

Reality is only expressed in these particularities, all of which are partial.

And it's the fundamental nature of the human person, which is that thing you long for is how you're made.

So if you can befriend the longing, it no longer is the problem of everything's not enough.

It's that, oh, I have a chance to participate in a sincere reflection of that perfection briefly.