The Scar on the Belly

One thing we all have is a navel.  While some dress as if showing it makes a fashion statement, it is really a scar which speaks of our being connected to our mother during our life in the waters of the womb.  And even as it points toward being connected to another before birth, so is it a reminder that we live best when we embrace the importance of being connected to others in our living. We were not created to live alone on an island and neither were we created to live alone in a vast sea of people.   

Our modern attempts at being connected through our wireless devices is really nothing more than an illusion.  The hope it seems to offer is nothing more than false hope.  Our internet based obsession only speaks of the deep desire within each of us to be connected to another.  It is a natural desire.  We were conceived and birthed with such a desire.  The scar on our belly speaks of this need.   

Our Father God who is our Creator knows of this desire for He planted it within our soul.  And as He works out His plan for us, it always includes relationships with others.  His plans for us cannot be fulfilled apart from community for we were created within community and for a community. The spiritual giants whose stories are told in the Sacred Word did not live in the wilderness as hermits, but as flesh and blood folks who lived in the unsanitized and messy world of relationships. The wholeness we all seek is not found in isolation, but in recognizing that we are apart of created humanity and then embracing it.