Animals and Angels

So, I am reading Rob Bell's latest book, Sex God. This morning I read chapter three, Animals and Angels. This chapter discusses how there is an animal impulse in us that wants us to to give in to all our cravings, and there is an angel impulse in us that wants us to deny ourselves of physical pleasure. Bell suggests that going to either extreme is equally destructive, and that we were made to live in the tension between the two extremes. It was an interesting chapter, and thus far, an interesting book.

I wanted to mention this chapter of the book because of something that came near the end. There are two paragraphs on page sixty-two that really stuck out to me.

You are not alone. What ever you struggle with, whatever you have questions about, you are not alone. It doesn't matter how dark it is or how much shame or weakness or regret it involves, you are not alone.
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Some of the most comforting words in the universe are "me too." That moment when you find out that your struggle is also someone else's struggle, that you're not alone, and that others have been down that same road.

When I read that, I was like, "Wait a minute. I just said something about that yesterday."

I guess rabbi Rob and I are in same boat.

Shalom.