Transcendent Reality and Potential

If you have an ideal of any sort, how is that not transcendent? It transcends you, that's the first thing. And it doesn't exist in reality. It exists in a place of possibility. We treat places of possibility as if they're real and castigate ourselves for not fulfilling them. So we have a relationship with the transcendent. But there's also some damn good reasons for doing that. Because one of the things that i've realized thinking through this covenant idea and also the sacrifice idea, is that the idea that the future is a judgmental father is a really, really good idea. I think more about your future now than what the natural world is going to