Sunshine Valley 

Platonic relationships 

Evie sighed, “I have been told all my life that men and women can’t just be friends. 

As our society continues to change, it’s okay if your ‘friend’ of the opposite sex has a different sexual orientation from you. People still frown and judge. 

I am aware that there is a whole school of thought that Jesus had a relationship with Mary Magdalene. I don’t believe that for a second. 

Let’s take a little look at Jesus. The only human to ever walk the face of this planet without sin. Who never sinned. 2 Corinthians 5:21. He was surrounded by women. He healed them. He prayed with them. They washed his feet. Cooked for him. Hung on his every word. When the men all ran away, it was the women who stood by Jesus. For the man that never knew sin, my personal belief is that he never had the desire to get hot and sweaty in the desert sands to make little Jesus’s. He loved and respected women as human beings. Not as potential objects of desire. 

Capitalism has put a price tag on love. It has transformed an emotion that is the very heart of every human into a disposable tissue. 

If I say, I love you’ to my bestie. And someone that doesn’t know us overheard, the rumor is that I’m now playing for the same team. ‘Did you hear that John said I love you to that lady in the grocery? She’s married. I bet you they are having an affair.’

Love has so many different dimensions but we get stuck on one. 

Many times, we fear one. 

Respect one. 

Loath one.

Seek to devour one. 

Can’t wait for one. 

Get consumed by one.”

     “Child,” Widow Blake whispered, “he’s in love with you. This old woman has been ‘round long enough to know a thing or two about a thing or two.”

     Evie just stared at her with big tears rollin’ down her cheeks. 

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