Intimacy in the Body of Christ

The New Community in Christ (a.k.a. the church) should be a place where we share intimately with each other. We are, after all, one body in Christ. Among other things, we ought to speak aloud to each other (and often) affirmations such as, "I really love my kids," and then go on to explain why. Not just the "unconditional" reason--that's kind of a spiritualistic cop-out sometimes, don't you think?--but the things that sometimes frustrate us but yet make us love them all the more, the things that make us smile, the things that make us beam with pride.