Two seperate thoughts...maybe

I have begun re looking at Chesterton's Orthodoxy in the last week or so, and for some reason I always forget his genius. Chesterton was an astute observer of his world, and often was able to play the role of prophet to those who would listen. In the third chapter, "The Suicide of Thought" Chesterton argues, "The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone." This seems to me almost exactly true of the situation I find myself in. As I struggle to find the right balance between welcoming and setting boundaries, the question is not whether something is virtuous or good, but rather how is it virtuous in relation to other virtues and goods. For example, saving money by making wise purchases may be virtuous (frugality and stewardship), but this can not be isolated from other virtues like justice and charity.
The second quote is given from Slavoj Zizek who, in his book The Puppet and the Dwarf, quotes Joseph Campbell's notion of the monstrous God: "By monster I mean some horrendous presence or apparition that explodes all your standards for harmony, order and ethical conduct....That's God in the role of destroyer. Such experiences go past ethical judgments. This is wiped out....God is horrific." It is difficult to explain everything going on in the quote or why Zizek even quotes it (as if I know), but there is something virtuous and good in this description of God. It is not virtuous or good in isolation from other goods we know of God. Rather, given our (over?) emphasis of God as love, or grace, or peace, or even weak descriptions of the fear of God as really remembering God in all our circumstances, we stand needing to be reminded of the horror that can be God. God is good, but this good does not always seem good. God is free, and he reserves the right to scare the shit out of us (see Exodus 19-20, Acts 6, 12) or walk in our shit with us (this is what the Incarnation means I think).
Come Lord Jesus.