Enriching
It feels blasphemous; but I think the Father, Son, and Spirit agree: life with them will be better if you are with us too. Better!
More sisters and brothers is better. All the relationships rise.
I am the youngest and am blessed with wonderful siblings. As great as my parents were, home life was diminished after my brother moved out. Even more so once my sister moved out and it was only me and my parents.
C.S. explains when talking about friendship in Four Loves: when you lose friend A, you not only loose friend A--you loose the parts of friends B and C that A would bring out. Our home not only lost my siblings, we lost the parts of each other my siblings brought out.
Each person we meet, has the potential with Jesus' help to know the Father. Their relationship will be unique. The white stone promise from Revelation makes clear that Jesus/God will know each person at a level no one else knows. Their knowledge will be a secret not through withholding information, but because only they can understand. George MacDonald proposed that just as there is a chamber in our hearts that only God can enter, there is also a chamber in God's heart that each of us alone can enter. This gives space for each of us to continue revealing the Father to each other. Just as though my sister and I each knew our dad well and most of our connections overlap, we can still learn about him from each other. And the potential is more alive than that; in my childhood home with my siblings present there were parts of my father that came out more fully because each was present.
Is there any greater enrichment than to enrich life through extending good relationship?