"Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth."
During one of my performance classes I played Henry Higgins from George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. It later proved to be one of my best (and most controversial) performances. Of the entire piece this is one of the lines I grew to be particularly fond of.
Independence is indeed a blasphemy. Steven Curtis Chapman sings of a "Declaration of Dependence." That is precisely how our lives are to be lived. They must be carried through in an utter dependence on God and then we must also learn to be relationally dependent as a sort of outflow from our dependence on God.
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