As Catholics, it is our obligation to become closer to God. While it seems easy, and good, in a vacuum, people aren't sure how it actually helps us in our day to day life. One way it helps us, however, is through our relationships with others. .
Our relationships with others are hard to describe. When pressed, I think I could possibly get an idea of how someone is and what I think of them, but it isn't exactly easy. This is because interpersonal relationships are more than just rational. Relationships are built upon things like trust, things like love, that we cannot truly rationalize. you can't rationalize loving someone because the structure of our nature makes it a meta-rational idea. God must therefore be the source of our emotive relationships. Why? If the human mind cannot rationalize something that we know exists, there must be something that explains it that exceeds rational capacity. This is God. God is the source of our meta-rational thoughts and feelings. This means incorporating God into a relationship is merely bringing t light the already important bond formed by him. Also, bringing God into a relationship strengthens it insofar as it puts a metaphysical, meta-rational arbiter between them. When two people find a love of God, happiness, through their relationships with each other, the relationship becomes that much stronger.
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