People, Love, Life... There is only one who understands

okay... tara's ramblings for the day...
"if you have an apple and i have an apple and we exchange them, then we each have an apple, but if you have an idea and i have an idea and we exchange them, then we each have 2 ideas"
What if the world operated in this mannor? What if people actually listened to one another, actually talked to one another, actually cared what was going on in someone's life besides their own? How is it that we become so enthralled in our own goals and aspiations that we lose sight of that which is really important- each other... If you look out for yourself then you have one person taking care of you, but if we all look out for one another, then we end up with a whole bunch of people taking care of us. We are made to be relational people- God made us to relate with one another- to help one another- to be with each other- be together in fellowship and community and relationships- he made us to partner together for life, and yet we still insist that we can do it better on our own- we insist that we know what is best for us, and that if anyone else even comes close to us that they will just mess it up... Why is that?
Are we too insecure in who we are to let someone else know that hey- maybe he don't have it all together, maybe I don't really know what I am doing, maybe I have no idea what I want or where I should be or where I should go or who I should be with or who I can trust... but those questions and those maybes only lead to more questions and more maybes... We are called to be transparent in Christ... but then to do that we would have to be with Christ- how close are we to him? If we will not allow people to get close to us, then how close are we allowing God to come? He is standing at the door, as the Bible so visually states, waiting to come in, but is He going to push His way through? NO, He wants us to want him to come in, he wants us to let go of our fears of inadequecy and let him take care of us. but don't get me wrong- he does not want this to be a passive relationship- he wants us to actively persue him- he wants us to want him...
He is showing us how our relationships on earth should be. We say that we know what God requires of us, we know what he wants from us and we say that we are willing to give up our lives for him and to commit to him, but how can we actively love God without actively loving his people? To "get to know" God we should read about him and talk to him and learn as much as we can as often as we can because we love him and when you love someone you show them- Why is this same train of thought not transferred to human relationships? I mean if you love someone and you say that you do- would you not make time for them? Would you not try to show them how much they mean to you? Would you not call on them as you call on the Lord?
Why is love, the essence of life, too often misunderstood? Why do those that love us too often leave us with tears of sadness, instead of those of joy? Perhaps God could explain it to us because I am sure that too often we leave him with many options besides love- and we do not deserve love, yet he provides it unconditionally...
Love fules us, it allows us to relate to one another and share our ideas- Love is the essence of who we are and what we want...