I saw a video this weekend of a set of adult twins interacting.

Now, I’ve always thought I would dislike my twin very much if I ever met him. I am pretty hard on my own failings in others.

But this video made me change my mind.

The twins were so winsome together. Completing each other’s sentences, sharing the deepest community of taste, feeling a lack when the other was absent. It was deeply attractive. I want a twin like that.

My mind wandered a little bit. The works of God are infinite, they say. When we are exalted, our works will be also. In all the infinite worlds we will create, what odds that we will have a twin out there–someone who shares our mortal DNA and our situation in life–who is our twin? Wouldn’t we follow that person with the keenest love and hope?

Then I realized that something like that is already what is on offer. Christ prayed that his apostles “may be one, even as we are one.” That is what is on offer: a closeness greater than that of friends, a harmony greater than that of brothers, a mutual understanding deeper than that of twins.