Another post from that other blog

Where did I get such brilliant nephews and nieces? My siblings are doing a great job raising their children. So Genius Child #1 presented another great post that I commented on, and again I felt like I needed to post my answer here. His original posting is about how we can forget that the events of history affected real people.

Here's my response:

I think it can be easy to disconnect the realness of an event when viewed from the distance of time. I don't know if your mom has talked much about the Cambodian family who lived with us one summer when I was in junior high and she was in high school. Very real people doing amazing things in horrific situations. I think that experience has helped me to see the people and not just the event.

I think this is also why people have an easier time following a dead prophet than a living one: you don't see them in all of their flawed, wonderful reality. You can focus on just the amazing things that God did through them without having to come to grips with the fact of their humanity.