Agape and Personhood. David L. Goicoechea

taunted by his friends he began to give in

      to temptation and sigh and lament the very day he was born.

      Finally he wished he could take God before a court of law.

      At first Job saw all the world as a gift from God and then he came

      to see it only as the problem of evil that looked worse and worse.

      So it was with Kierkegaard. He came to see himself as a problem.

      He could no longer stand his depressed father and moved out.

      He was a small, hunch-back, gay, little guy who could not

      even write his thesis. He not only had problems; he was a problem.

      He was a physical, social, sexual, intellectual mess of problems.

      But then Regina loved him and he loved her and all his problems

      turned into gifts for now he was reconciled with his father.